Dear Lord God,
Do I miss
The questions?
What is this
That I want
Most? Am I
Afraid to
Ask You? Why?
Yet You ask,
Sally, do
You want this?
Though You knew —
Long before
Your query –
You’ve known I’m
Too weary
To even
Realize
How good You
Are — and wise
Do you want to be healed? John 5:6
This is one of my favorite exchanges in John.
We’re introduced to a man who has been an invalid for 38 years. Jesus asks him, “Do you want to be healed?” which is a simple yes or no, but his answer is haunting and heart-breaking — “Sir, I have no one…”
So Jesus heals him.
This year for the A-to-Z challenge, I’m challenging myself to write a Cethramtu Rannaigechta Moire every day. I can’t pronounce it, but I can tell you that it’s an Irish poetic form that requires 3 syllable lines in quatrains. The second and fourth lines rhyme.
Additionally, I’ve been collecting questions for a few years — specifically questions from the Bible. I have a big problem with people who think they know everything, especially religious people.
The more someone thinks they know God, the converse is true. I know less about God today than I did last year or five years or twenty-five years ago. I have so many questions.
Turns out the Bible is full of questions.
So, I’m using questions from the Gospel of John for this challenge.
Hot Dogs and Marmalade 
Sally this is so true! The older I get the more questions I have. As a child I accepted everything I was told and the questions increased… some have been answered but new ones keep cropping up! Of all the Irish forms this one is the most accessible – and you have used it to great effect!
Thank you. I think — no, I KNOW — I reached a point where church people seemed to feel like they knew all the answers and the mystery of God was gone. They had put God in a box — and God NEVER belongs in a box. So I started asking questions — and see where it got me? More questions.
I love the questions you are sharing, Sally…I too have a head full of them. 💞