Dear God

Dear God,

It makes me really mad that we have screwed up this whole Christianity thing so much. I'm sorry for the huge number of us who have lived double lives and tried to compartmentalize Christianity and life in the "real world" into two separate gigs. I'm sorry that we have taken The Bible and gotten distracted by fighting over tiny details rather than letting it transform our lives. I'm sorry for all of us who act like jerks and judge the world with a "holier than thou" attitude when we are not better off than anyone else. I'm sorry that we've gotten in your way, you want to bring hurting, searching souls to life, and by our stupidity and impatience we've ruined it for you so many times. God, just because we know you it doesn't mean that we are no longer human and tend to fall short of what's good. We need you to make it better. Come, open up our eyes, reconnect us with the world we live in. Show us how to get out of our "country club churches" and know each and every person the way that you do, no matter what they've done, or what they do, kick the pride out of us and make us reflections of your unconditional love for them to see. We've failed you, restore the church. Teach us how to make it right. We are nothing without you.

Amen.