Prayers of Adoration

Chesterton says that anything worth doing is worth doing badly.  I can do that!

New York City bycicle messengers oozing and squirting through traffic like oozy, squirty things.

I’m not really qualified to judge but I’m pretty sure no one who likes poetry will like these much.   I wrote Athesist, Tramps and Theives when I was a kid of twenty one or so and a new Christian.   I had been reading Tim Lahaye about the evil and pernicious agenda of the secular humanists (he seems to have been right about that.)  Then in a single day I had conversations with three different atheists and the poem kind of wrote itself.  It just leaped out of me as if it were great art or something.

This other poem is a parody of Sweet Home Alabama so you know it can’t be serious (not that the cultural allusions in the first one are any less low brow: Cher, beer commercials and football!)  I had moved from the South to Massachusetts shortly before the 1988 presidential campaign and got my political awakening.  It was not pretty.  It seemed clever to put a redneck boogie in the mouth of Michael Dukasis.

I just noticed a pattern: experience a wrenching conversion and then write a poem.  I think I’m done.

From JumboJoke.com.

You are good Father and Your love never ends. Nothing stops You because nothing can. You made all things and rule everything You made. Nothing is too big for You or too small. Nothing is too hard for You and there is nothing You do not understand, nothing that happens that You do not know completely from all eternity.

We come to You in the name of Jesus through the way He opened for us, through His own body and blood. We bring You only our weakness and sin and rely on Your promise to receive us in His name. His work is sufficient—it is enough to make the vilest person clean. We glory in this salvation You have lavished upon us. You are so great, so good and so wise. You are just, holy, righteous and perfect in all You are and do. You are God and there is no other. You made us and saved us and we worship You. You are great! Thank You Father! Please make us know that we are Yours and that Your desire is for us. We love You Father. Amen.

Wait for it…

Bert & Osama!