I’m joining up again with the Five Minute Friday Community, but this time with something different. The prompt we were given was the word ‘why’.

I expected to either write about all the whys we can ask God, or better still, all the whys we get from our children when they are in one of those wind up moods. You know, when you tell them to do something and they make that three letter word sound like the longest word going…

”Whyyyyyyyyyyy?”

You get what I mean? Well, I wrote something different instead. This week I have been prompted to write a poem. If you want to read what other people wrote, then click here.

We Hopefully Yearn

We ask questions when we don’t understand,
Hoping that God has the answers in His hand,
Yearning for Him to meet our demand.

We ask questions when we want to know,
Hoping that God has the answers in His throw,
Yearning for Him to come and show.

We ask questions when we don’t recognise,
Hoping that God will open our eyes,
Yearning for Him to make us realise.

We ask questions when we want to believe,
Hoping that God will help us conceive,
Yearning for Him to help us perceive.

We ask questions when we don’t accept,
Hoping that God will help when we’re inept,
Yearning for Him to dry tears we’ve wept.

“Why?” is the question we want an answer to,
Hoping that “why?” is what God already knew,
Yearning for why His love shines through.