A Prayer Before Dying
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Real Live Preacher has posted one of the final prayers of famous Baptist pastor Carlyle Marney who died of a heart attack in 1978. It shows amazing humility and honesty as well as a nice bit of wit. Reverend Marney was known as a powerful thinker and prophetic spokesperson. It is interesting to note the tone of one of his final prayers, given just a few months before his death.
"Naked I came into the world; how I'm dressed at the conclusion makes no difference."
Hear now my pitiable defense. In all my sixty years I killed no creature of Thine I did not need for food except for a few rattlesnakes, a turtle or two, two quail I left overlong in my coat and three geese poisoned on bad grain before I shot them in Nebraska, plus one wood duck in Korea. In all my years I consciously battered no child though my own claimed much need to forgive me. And consciously misused no person. Thou knowest my aim to treat no human being as thing, never to hate overlong, to pass no child without catching his or her eye and my innermost wish to love as Thou doest love by seeing no shade of color or class.... Read More.
Hear now my pitiable defense. In all my sixty years I killed no creature of Thine I did not need for food except for a few rattlesnakes, a turtle or two, two quail I left overlong in my coat and three geese poisoned on bad grain before I shot them in Nebraska, plus one wood duck in Korea. In all my years I consciously battered no child though my own claimed much need to forgive me. And consciously misused no person. Thou knowest my aim to treat no human being as thing, never to hate overlong, to pass no child without catching his or her eye and my innermost wish to love as Thou doest love by seeing no shade of color or class.... Read More.
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