We Pray This Day
(to play)

God
Hear us today
We ask
In this gray day

Regardless
To have clarity
In you

Not
To know everything
But know enough
And suss
Enough
And feel it through
So that all of us
And
All inside
The major strings are played

And we make sense as
Instruments of
Harmony
To play for you in service
And in pleasure

Goodness(!)

Goodness
Pleasing you

While
Heaven’s performance
Shall be
So much better
Than our own and
Yet
Somehow
Coelic symphony
Conductor
To welcome

Someday
Our auditions

Amen
(and together)
Amen

C L Couch


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(human epilogue)

Sorry
Children
“Play” above
Means
Play as instruments
As we are instruments
Of the will
And in service of
The Lord

But God is not thoroughly
A spoilsport
And neither should
Liturgical leadership
Deny

That the play outside
Or inside
For sport is
Sanctioned
Too
If not at worship
Well
Before
Or after

If playing well
And God-approved

(and so
this way in
play
we pray)
Amen

(play ball)