Book of Uncommon Prayer: 100 Celebrations of the Miracle & Muddle of the Ordinary
A hundred prayers for bad drivers, teenagers and cancer wards, written in sentences that keep going long after they might stop.
A hundred short prayers for things that do not usually get prayed over, among them bad drivers, teenagers, cancer wards and the small mercies of an ordinary Tuesday. Doyle wrote in long tumbling sentences that refuse to stop, and the sheer accumulation of them is the argument he is making.
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Maria Popova
That is what Brian Doyle, patron saint of the miraculous, explores in one of the short, exultant pieces collected in his Book of Uncommon Prayer: 100 Celebrations of the Miracle & Muddle of the Ordinary (public library).
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