"I'm Lindsey Crittenden, and I'm the author of a book called The Water Will Hold You: A Skeptic Learns to Pray.

This book came out in March of 2007; it's a book about prayer, but it's not a religious book. I came into prayer as someone who was very skeptical and still am to some extent, skeptical of organized religion. The book is really the story of my relationship with prayer and how that changed.

I know there's a lot of people who see the word "prayer" and just sort of think, "Ugh," and I wanted the book to appeal to people who would have some skepticism. The book doesn't put forth any one way to pray at all, or any one belief, or any one god, necessarily. My hope is that it would really transcend any denomination that it would be. I mean I am a practicing Christian, but my hope is that the book would appeal to people who aren't necessarily Christians.

It doesn't say that prayer will make all these things go away, or prayer will make it all better, or if you have faith, you won't suffer. It's at times pretty gritty about the reality of things, and I think that's the strength of the book. I mean my hope is that the book would appeal to people who are maybe - who are inter - I mean I think it sort of goes without saying that it would appeal to people who are interested in the spiritual, who are interested in the meditative, who are interested in the contemplative. So those are the people I hope will pick it up. People that are maybe straddling, as I said, maybe have one foot in but are kind of, "I don't know about this, I don't know about this whole thing." My hope is that the book will appeal to them."

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