More on prayer from Anne Lamott, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers:
“Most good, honest prayers remind me that I am not in charge, that I cannot fix anything, and that I open myself to being helped by something, some force, some friends, some something. These prayers say, “Dear Some Something, I don’t know what I am doing. I can’t see where I’m going. I’m getting more lost, more afraid, more clenched. Help., but something else isn’t.
These prayers acknowledge that I am clueless.”
There’s a theme here, I think, which I can pick up on if I dwell on it enough. Not a theme that settles well within my “if you want it done right, do it yourself” self, but a theme nonetheless.
It occurs to me... 