Different perspective Poetic Asides

 

If I Didn’t Believe in God.

 

If I didn’t believe in God,

I’d be in a world that just happened,

like an encyclopedia coming from

a bomb blast in a book shop.

 

If I didn’t believe in God,

whenever I was alone, I’d have

nobody to talk to except myself,

no loving, attentive Ears.

 

If I didn’t believe in God,

I’d say, “Everything goes.”

If it feels good, do it.

Until it doesn’t.

 

If I didn’t believe in God.

I’d feel like I was in a hall of mirrors.

with all its distortions.

No way to get out except death.

 

If I didn’t believe in God,

death would be it.

I’d have no hope

of a Heavenly Home.  

 

If I didn’t believe in God,

I wouldn’t receive His forgiveness.

I wouldn’t have anyone to thank

for the good things in my life.

 

If I didn’t believe in God,

when troubles came my way,

I’d have no supernatural help.

Impossibilities would be the norm.

 

If I didn’t believe in God,

others wouldn’t matter much to me.

I wouldn’t see them

as His valued creation.

 

If I didn’t believe in God.

Sanity would be hard to keep.

I wouldn’t feel His comfort

in this crazy, mixed-up world.