On my book signing days
Is it ethical to pray?
“God, please sway
That ‘book looker’ to pay
Without debate or delay
For that book I wrote
As, I’m nearly broke!”
Waiting for someone to pick
Just one book and discover
What’s behind the cover?
I’ve done my best to write
This genre with life’s insight
For people's reading delight!
Too late now for prayer.
Sitting here as people stareAnd wonder if they’ll bother
To go, meet the author
Or be safe and stay away.
So, I get tempted to pray,
“Lord, drag them my way!”
As this silent prayer I utter,
I fear it’s a wrongful matter.God won’t hear this chatter.
“Son”, I sense His reply
“I cannot let you try
And use me to coerce
People to fill your purse.”
Not all, I admit, tho’ stricken,
Will like the genre written.I, not God, am the salesman
And He is not my talisman.
My attitude about how to pray
Must surround my book display,
"Lord, let me honour you today!"
©Ray Hawkins Dec 2015.
Yes! Poetry I can read and understand without having to interpret deep pseudo-symbolism!
ReplyDeleteWell said, Ray.
Amen. We can forget that our job is to bring the Lord glory and not the other way round.
ReplyDeleteI guess that's why the word 'remember' is so often used in Scripture. Thanks Ian.
DeleteThanks, Ray--great fun to read but also with a serious message. So easy to fall into that trap of glorifying ourselves, for sure.
ReplyDeleteHi Jo- Anne
ReplyDeleteIt reveals the conflict of interest I often face - the clash between the spiritual and the carnal, the message or the money. I do hope others see it as seriously funny.