All the complex considerations
of doctrines,
all the debate over
interpretations,
are like a faint and distant roar
to my weary heart.
I have no strength
to entertain such matters.
I have been stripped
of my presuming.
All I have left
is one sure and simple thing.
It is this.
I need you.
This is the sum total
of my faith today.
It is my one sentence
doctrinal statement.
It is all I know.
But I know it
from the depths of my being.
I need you.
I need you.
——
Yet I am poor and needy;
may the Lord think of me.
Psalm 40:17
from Heaven at My Door by Juanita Ryan
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