A
Dad was on the beach with his children
When
his four-year-old son ran up to him,
Took
his hand and dragged to the shore
Where
a seagull lay dead in the sand before him
“Daddy, what happened to it?” the boy asked
Dad replied, “He died and went to Heaven son,”
The boy thought a moment and then said,
“Did
God throw him back down here then?”
When I was a boy I prayed to god
For
a new bike for me
Then
I realized that God
Doesn’t
work like that you see
So,
I stole one instead
And
asked him to forgive me
In my latter years I only ask
That
God grant me in my senility
To
forget people, I never liked at any rate
And
the good fortune
To
run into the people that I do like
And
the eyesight to differentiate
Six-year-old Ellie was in church
With
four-year-old Luke her brother
They
were sitting in the church
Attending
a family wedding together
Luke laughed, sang, and talked out loud.
Pulled faces and generally messed about
Finally,
his big sister had had enough
Luke
was spoiling her special day out
“You're not supposed to talk out loud in church.”
“Why?” Luke asked “Who's going to stop me?”.
Ellie pointed to the back of the church and said,
“Those
two men by the door are hushers see”
Master of the universe
Great architect of nature
Builder of the galaxies
Every
facet and feature
Don’t
listen to our silence
Most
benevolent creator
And
think us unworthy
Don’t
condemn us like a traitor
We
are misguided only
That
is just our nature
We
will turn to you again
For
man is a fickle creature
I believe in God
I believe him to be the creator
The creator of heaven and earth
Of the stars and the planets
I believe him to be the creator of the universe
The scientific community
Talk of the big bang
Which sparked off the creation of the universe
They call God a myth
And his creation a myth
Science of course call it the big bang theory
Theory being science speak for a guess
Or put another way a belief
They can no more prove their belief
Than I can prove the existence of God
For all their contempt for belief systems
They are locked in one of their own making
I have faith in the creation
But if there was a big bang
Then God pressed the button
Three-year-old Katie had been learning
The
Lord’s prayer with her mother each night
She
would repeat each line after her mother
Practicing
and practicing to get it right
Katie’s
mum carefully enunciated each word
Going
over and over each line in detail
Finally,
Katie went solo “Lead us not into temptation”
She
carefully recited “but deliver us some E-mail”
