A Coward's Prayer

upon going to church

Photo by Pedro Lima on Unsplash

Dear Lord,

I pray for my time at church: for the worship, the message, and the interactions with people. 

I pray my worship would be transcendent. I pray that I would forget all my troubles—the morning fight to get everyone ready, the fraudulent charges to the credit card, the rat droppings I found in the side yard this morn…