The other day I was listening to a review of a new book, Help, Thanks, Wow; The Three Essentials of Prayer, by Anne Lamott on National Public Radio. It made me think that prayer is multifaceted, but what really captured my attention was the third component - the Wow factor. It is all about praising God.
She describes this Wow experience as a time when you are speechless. You recognize perhaps a moment of beauty in creation, or it might be something you recognize for the first time that makes a tremendous impact on you.
I also think of the situation where God has come through in prayer for you maybe in an unexpected way.. It is a Wow moment. Or something just captures your attention about the greatness of God. It is a Wow moment. Do you have many such moments in your life, where you are just moved to give praise to God? It made me think that maybe my own such moments are too few. Possibly, I'm just not being sensitive enough to God's creation or how God is working in the world.
I hope that your prayer life is multifaceted and that there are those Wow moments for you!
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