Posts tagged ‘prayer’

an atheist’s prayer

Oh God. Oh Mother. Oh Holy One. I don’t think you’re listening. I don’t think you can. Whether you created this Universe or you ARE this…

a prayer.

dear god: i’m having a difficult time discerning right from wrong. i am trying to remember wwjd. but it seems to me that “what would jesus…

song…is a prayer.

I don’t pray anymore. But this comes close…right?

the talk I would have given

This post was originally written on Sunday, June 24th, 2013. Today I sat in church. The first speaker mentioned that she “has a bad tendency to…

A Skeptic’s Prayer, by Margaret Munk

Is it true
Thou lovest best
Thy meek, unasking children?

Thou hast made us
So diverse, so various,
Yet in the image
Of a Sire
Who filled a universe
With his creative fire.

What father has supposed
His child would grow to manhood
Only hearing and affirming?
What sire could honor such a son?
How could a mind that,
Like a sponge,
Absorbs but never questions,
Doubts,
Or wonders why
Be offspring and apprentice
To a God?

It may be, Lord,
That thou canst never love me
With the calm relief
A father feels
For his obedient child—
The one who’s never any trouble.

But use me
As a bridge
To those more wayward still
Than I.
I cannot give them all the answers;
But they will not ask
The ones who think they can.

Let me speak
To thy lost sheep
As one who,
Understanding how they went astray,
Still loves the Shepherd.