Your Twenty-First Century Prayer Life. Nathaniel Lee Hansen

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      deeds you didn’t know you’ve done;

      deeds you’ve done that you know well.

      No matter your hiding, you will be rescued.

      Bad Sermons

      You’ve suffered your share. The worst

      aren’t the predictable and cheap,

      forgettable as newsprint—noble attempts

      at the Trinity; ignoble attempts

      to discredit evolution in twenty minutes;

      bellowing about non-essentials as if they

      equal Christ’s body and blood.

      1. A minister confesses that he lacks

      a poetic bone (reason to be scared).

      Solomon read as Christ. The lover’s

      “dark skin” evidence of her sin.

      He ignores the obviously erotic.

      You and your wife scribble notes

      screaming out ridiculous exegesis.

      2. A minister diverges from Scripture,

      eulogizing a recently deceased

      politician (the man self-admittedly not

      a Christian). Disbelief, more than anger,

      drenches you that fall morning.

      (The latter arrives later). Never

      have you seen your wife so angry.

      These wolves materialize

      while you count sheep.

      You jerk awake, afraid

      and furious, pray for those

      lambs—that they didn’t swallow

      lies as truths, that sharp teeth

      didn’t tear tender flesh.

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