Free verse № 139034
To drnick
I do not know you drnick
nor know your real name
I do not know what you look like
or what's your favourite game
What you might like to eat or drink
or styles you prefer best
the languages you know to speak,or
to whom you're known as 'pest'.
Yet, still I thank our Lord above
for His creation true
and for the very nature in the
one and only you.
I ask that He may bless you
in all you undertake
not judge you on what I might think
the habits you should break.
I pray that He be with you
wherever you may go
in every step or act of yours
Love's gifts in you may grow.
And most of all, I thank Him
for the plans He has for you
in love and friendship, aches and pains
in joys and sorrows too.
24 comments
drnick... you're now famous.
As for the stronger stuff, this is basically how I pray. Besides, I can't cure myself of some habits, how am I gonna cure someone else's. And 'curing' ain't my fancy. Being adventurous is mine.
Was my life any less fulfilling when I once believed in Santa Claus?
and yes, it was His 'plan' for you to get reall drunk, if you may say so.
much as we would like to believe we are all knowing,
in our modern world science has so many answers,
but deep inside a question who am i?
deeper inside a voice quite and faint, growing stronger as you listen.
superego cries freud,
conscience cries science.
my question is why the heck was it programmed into the system in the first place?.
do i see an old man with merry eyes smiling!!.
ask questions he says?
do you have all the answers my friend.
man i sure wish i knew...........
i am too weak to hold onto faith.......
Of course, you CAN simply pray "God send me to heaven instead of hell". But if you could likely get bonus points for wishing good on other people while praying, why the hell wouldn't you?
Pope Ratzinger is probably aware that God isn't moved by human prayers. He does, however, know that God gives special chairs in heaven to people who pray for others. He therefore dupes the entirety of his congregation into believing prayer intercessions are meaningful ways to help others, and then counts on (1) his having helped many, many people into heaven, and (2) his own prayers, which are, possibly, only for his own salvation, to get himself into heaven as well. The only alternative, from his perspective, is simply to tell all his congregants to only pray for themselves or risk being seen by God as disingenuous self-promoters. In which case, no one gets bonus points, and even Ratzinger's own salvation is at risk, as he's helped no one particularly get salvation and he's a soddy Nazi crone.
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