Poem/Prayer for Worship
by Thom Shuman
Building

me -
   a dwelling place for God?

my roof
       leaks with wayward
       and wanton thoughts . . .

my windows
       look out on a world
       lusting for more
               and caring for less;
       if any dare peek in,
           they will see the same hungers . . .

my furnace
       is filled with the ashes
           of dusty dreams
           and hapless hopes . . .

my foundation
   cracks under the weight of loneliness,
   ravaged by the storms of sadness.

i would build you
       a house, my God:

re-build me
instead.

Amen.   

(c) 2006  Thom M. Shuman 

*  it was tempting to title this
'Shaken, not stirred"!!!

(Comments to Thom at tmshuman@fuse.net.)
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Greenhills Community Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, Ohio