get your priorities crooked

3/04/2011

You may remember a childhood journal entry that I posted a while back. Flipping through the same journal I came across this prayer, written in surprisingly legible cursive:

Dear God,
Please keep all the animals safe tonight. Please help us learn more about you, because we never learn enough. Please help us get along. Thank you for the world and everything in it. Please let us have sweet dreams. Please help us not to go to the bathroom in our beds. Please (etc.) help us NOT to throw up tonight. Amen.
It's a good thing God meets us where we are. Even when we are (apparently) dealing with some tough issues. Or maybe I wasn't actually dealing with those particular issues. It's hard to tell given the very ambiguous language. Either way, at least I knew how to pick out stylish outfits.

1 comments:

AllisonMarch 9, 2011 at 10:41 PM
ha ha! :) That's my friend!
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But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.

- Micah 4:4

They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

They shall not labor in vain, or bear children for calamity; for they shall be offspring blessed by the Lord -- and their descendants as well.

-Isaiah 65:22-23