Poemranker [Replying] Thu Nov 21 11:05:29 PST 2024

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Prayer For The Church (Free verse) by sliver

Guide us, St. Joseph Through this time of transition. Help your princes in their efforts To fill this lofty position. Help them to elect a leader With a strong hand, Someone with the wisdom And the strength to take a stand.

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6-Apr-05/3:24 AM

Where does silver say "nevertheless, not my will but yours be done"?

Sure, he's backtracked and said it since -=Dark_Angel=-,P.I. called him on it, and it was probably somewhere in his mind when he was writing the poem. But this whole conversation is about whether you're asking for your own will or God's will while praying, so you have to admit that's a pretty big thing to leave out. As far as the poem/prayer goes, he's only asking for his own will.

PS-I notice you've totally changed your approach since posting this comment, and now prayer's not supposed to be logical. Well, I mean, duh. For one thing, you're talking to an invisible being with the omnipotent power to inconsistently grant incomprehensible gifts. For another thing, when you pray you pretty much have something in mind that you want (i.e., to pass this math test), but you're supposed to ask for whatever God sees fit to offer (i.e., a new Chevy Malibu), so you kind of want to remind God about the math test without seeming like you know better what you need. In that kind of bind, the Jesus model isn't a bad one; you tell God what you have in mind (i.e., not dying), then politely ask him to do whatever He was going to do in the first place (i.e., crucifixion). Unfortunately, that's not what silver did. That's the whole point.

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