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Wouldn't God Reward Two Faithful Ones?

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What if two people prayed for two years?
Wouldn't God give them what they wanted?
If they stayed faithful to their ideals,
never compromising their belief in God,
or each other,
would God smile at them?

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Or would God have something else in mind?
If He did, would their prayers be less worthy?
Would what they felt be any less
if they waited two more seconds,
two more hours,
two more days,
two more weeks,
two more months,
two more years,
to become one?


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I think that if God wanted them to wait forever,
they would.
And that would be their reward.

Posted by Nathan on July 17, 2008
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Nathan on paragraph 1:

I’m not 100% sure why this “stanza” (or stanza 2 or 7) are here. I tried to edit them out but it didn’t seem to work. Maybe you can help Rob?

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July 18, 2008 2:31 pm
Rob on paragraph 1:

Nathan, I wasn’t sure if this first line was intended to repeat the title, or if it was a second (and therefore extraneous) instance of the title, so I left it. The extra paragraph things were due to that nasty Microsoft code that causes problems with the comments on Alexis’s poems. One solution on how to handle this can be found at http://negativecapabilitypress.org/blog/2008/05/08/comments-problems/

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July 19, 2008 10:36 pm
Rob on paragraph 4:

I love these kinds of things where the beauty is in the very answerlessness of the question. To my warped theology, however, it all depends on whether they are praying for what God wants or what they want, and that makes a difference even if the two wants are the same.

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July 19, 2008 10:42 pm
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