Prayerfully Poetic

A Collection of Prayerful Poems by Tim McGee

God, why me?

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I stumble, hands too weak to hold
the weight You’ve placed unto them.
I’m no Moses, no Gideon—certainly no saint—
just a voice caught hiding in the cracks of silence.

Yet You call me, as if I’ve something to offer,
though my hands are empty,
my heart unsure,
my countenance weak.

Why me, God?
Why choose what’s broken,
when the world contains so much more?

But in the quiet, Your reminder echoes—
It’s not about strength, not about skill,
but grace, a power that fills the hollow spaces.

You choose the weak
to show the world You are strong,
so even in my unworthiness,
Your glory shines.

In my worldly nothingness,
I trust in your omnipotent fullness.
As You will it,
make it so, Lord.

2 responses to “God, why me?”

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    happilystrawberrye3072ebeb1

    Grace, a power that fills the hollow spaces.. thank you for words that describe what I cannot. God’s blessings ~Barb

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  2. My own thoughts were travelling this way just yesterday… We’ve been asking it since stuttering Moses, haven’t we? Perhaps there is no way to possess both the personal perfection we see as necessary, and the genuine humility and compassion God sees as necessary, at the same time.

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