Poem/Prayer for Worship
by Thom Shuman

Abba:
       hungering for more
       that we deserve,
       we demand our way
               and you give it.

       we stuff ourselves
       on the empty husks
        of pleasure and selfishness,
           our shallow souls
           hungering for more;

       we party our way through life,
       awakening in sin's gutters,
           our hollow hearts
           hungering for more;

       then
       stumbling and stammering,
           we hunger to find
           our way back to you -

   where    you fling wide
   heaven's doors,
       dragging your stainless robe
       through the litter of our sin,
   running        to sweep us up
            in your arms
           and carry us home

       where we will hunger
               no more.

Abba. 
(c) 2007  Thom M. Shuman

(Comments to Thom at tmshuman@fuse.net.)

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