Faith today is a complicated business. There is organized religion, politics, irony and expectation. Yet, at its core it’s a simple idea. The notion that we don't have all the answers, that we should express gratitude for what we do have and that we can stop and smell the proverbial roses.

In these basic beliefs Anne Lamott has brought together in  Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers,what she knows and believes about prayer and its fundamentals. My conversation with Annie Lamott: