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Si vous croyez en Dieu, vous n’avez rien a perdre.  – Pascal, Pensees, Le Pari (The Wager)

(If you believe in God, you have nothing to lose.)

See me, the impostor.

Hear me pray every morning, wanting to believe.

Hear me affirming the nature of this Power and Presence

from a heart like an empty bowl.

Hear me say I’m one with the One,

yet I’m behind a veil, lonely and separate.

See the tears I weep for my past of guilt and anger and loss.

Hear me ask for guidance, not knowing what words are real.

Hear me confess my misperceptions, asking how to forgive.

See me bent under a burden of leftover emotions.

Teach me how to liberate myself.

Teach me the Truth.