When They Deny 'You'

WHEN THEY DENY ‘YOU’ When they deny You And indict You And mock You And prove You do not exist I feel a certain despair And pray to You with greater desperation. Why don’t You give us simple proof? Why do You allow so many horrors in the world Which speak against You? Why must I need You so much? And why I must have to look To the Beauty of this world and the goodness of my life To strengthen my faith in You? Why must I live too in question and doubt Needing and loving You nonetheless Fearing You too to the depth of my childhood? Oh God Give me more proof each day With all the thousands and thousands of kindnesses You have given I ask for still more.