Prayer Poems

Learner and the family spent a few days on the farm for Thanksgiving and had a relaxing, thankful time. They came back yesterday (Saturday) to get a running start on what could be one of their roughest academic weeks at seminary so far.

Aided (to some degree) by the fact that they have a few sick kids as of last night, they stayed home from church this morning and, perhaps somewhat guiltily, are enjoying the day at home.

One of the projects Learner is working on is his prayer poem book. Here are a few "masterpieces" (said smirkily with much sarcasm):

Depending on My Theology

Depending on my theology

God is sovereign or He’s biased

God is good or He’s absent

God allows or He’s dead

Depending on my theology

God observes or He’s deaf

God knows or He’s behind

God causes or He’s retired

Depending on my theology

God was or He wasn’t

God is or He isn’t

God is to come or He’s already left the building

Depending on my theology

my theology may not be the best thing to depend on

Prayer Haiku

It’s learning to breathe

Then learning to forget how

This is prayer to me

So he's no Whitman, but he's trying...and having fun in the process.