My DIAL-A-PRAYER for those who remember when we had one black phone

Dear God,

Help lead us , LORD,    

We are so lost, our Nation has lost focus

 and has forgotten You.

,

We no longer look to Your eternal Truth

 and Your eternal Guidance,

We are deluded into thinking we 

possess Your Infinite Wisdom,

 and we  have forgotten our history.

We have bought into the narratives of

the politicians and the corporations,

and we no longer look at Your long 

Truth, and the worst thing is, we have

forgotten the truth of Your Son, Jesus,

who taught us to treat each other as 

brothers and as pilgrims on Your Path.

We have allowed the blandishments of

our political parties to twist Your 

eternal verities into pretzels, and

the talking heads of our media

prefer to say the safe thing and

nowhere do we hear Your Exulted Voice

extolling us revere Your Creation, Your

sacred water, Your pure air.

We sully our nest with chemicals, with

our plastic, with smoke, with our

weapons, with fertilizers, with drugs,

with all the things which we buy 

because they are cheap,

and then we discard them and pile

them in secluded places, covering them

with earth,as if they were seeds and 

could grow again into fresh fruit, which 

they cannot do, but we do all this 

because we are clever and we have 

learned to make things and to sell them 

to each other, so we can make money 

and find more ways to separate 

ourselves from our brothers, and to 

dress ourselves in fine garments, and 

buy overpriced cars, and live in

extravagant dwellings and spend more

money on decorations to announce to 

the world, 

“see how successful we are and how 

clever”...
 

And when I do these things, Lord, and 

other folks do these things and attempt 

to impress me with their marvels, I 

want to ask:

“is this our legacy for mankind, is this 

what You, Lord, put us on this planet 

for”, to consume as many resources as 

we possibly can, and leave no lasting 

contribution to the heritage of human 

progress, to our collective wisdom,

or to our collective notion that we 

should use our time in this miracle

to further the well-being of all humans,

for we are part of the same family, part 

of Your Creation, and related just as 

closely as any other tight-knit band of 

a wandering tribe, tending to each 

other as primates do, who often do so 

more kindly than homo sapiens, who is 

so much more clever than any of our 

animal cousins.

Is this what we want to share and to

leave, to mark our passage through

this golden miracle we call life?