Let's Imagine

You tell me you want nothing of God,
that He's never listened, didn't care,
wouldn't help no matter how earnestly asked.
You say an angry God punishing children
and their progeny generations and again
turns you off, sickens your soul.
You shun a God who condemns to Hell
for weakness, for failing, for caving to addiction,
who declares sins mortal, unforgivable
but expects you to forgive. Well, okay.
You need not accept such a god.
Instead, figure out what kind of god
you would want to have, to accept,
to yield control to. Let's imagine a god
you could admire, you would respect.
Find a god you can understand, as you
understand him.