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A Prayer for Ignorance For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9 Lord, I ask Your forgiveness for I must confess that I find the impenetrability of Your thoughts to offer no comfort whatsoever. Lord, teach me to accept my ignorance. Let me unlearn every mathematical technique and social grace. Let me forget everything, even that I have lived all these years. Wrap me in a blanket of ignorance. Let me be persuaded to act wrongly by arguments designed to deceive by those skilled in the arts of deception. Let me shout vehemently for causes I do not understand and repudiate perpetrators of injustices I have not studied. Let my actions be guided by instinct and prejudice. Lord, release me from the obligation of thought, for I have traveled that path and trusted mightily in it though it has not led me to Your promised land, in which the lamb and the lion dine side by side. Lord, let me accept that Your exalted thoughts cannot be rationalized by the human mind. Let me blind myself, then wander by chance through either the gates of Your kingdom, or the gates of Hell, which seems more likely, for, though I cannot trust the workings of my mind to unravel the depths of Your mysteries, I can sense whichever way I go, it shall be wrong. |
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A Prayer for Ignorance David Keffer Knoxville, TN September 28, 2014 |