You’re selling your higher power short until you start saying WHEN instead of IF. ~ James Caton

I stand convicted, convinced, certain
of things my God wants me to have,
to grow to, to learn. I can pray and pray
to receive them, to learn them, to so grow
but when I know it’s what God wants
that’s redundant, it’s a denial, it’s a cop-out.
It means I know it’s available and avoiding,
that I choose to hold to something else,
something less, something tied to my fears.
My expectations of God are too low
if I don’t think he has time for me,
if I don’t believe he’ll give me what I really need,
if I shy away from his gifts.
God, give me the grace to accept your gifts.