The Perils of Prayer
Here’s the problem with praying: you often get what you pray for. When Katryna got pregnant (answered prayer #1), I finally saw on my calendar exactly that for which I…
September 26, 2004
God is Tired
posted November 27, 2019
It takes courage to
Read the newspapers. Each month
More bad news about
Our failure to quit
Fossil fuels and buying cheap
Stuff that will end up
On a barge at sea
Poisoning the oceans or
Filling up landfills.
Today it occurred
To me that the leadership
We most need is what
We have. Ignorant
Denial plus exhaustion
Equals a faster
Extinction of the
Real problem. God is tired.
Get this over with.
This poem came from a prompt suggesting we write in Haiku form using the words Courage, Leadership, Failure, Exhaustion. Apologies for the dystopia and bleak turn. I have been writing a poem a day for the month of November to support the Center for New Americans. If you wish to donate to support my efforts, go here. All funds benefit the wonderful work of CNA.
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Beautiful. And true.
Wow. Just…wow. Yes.
and yet undaunted
Spirit who fights on in love
rallies open hearts.
Re-reading this on Easter with another level of appreciation.