I got this in an email and consider it edifying, so I am sharing it here.
ginnyrose
If God Should Go on Strike
(Adapted slightly from a poem by Walt Huntley, "Canada's homespun poet")
How is it that God above
Has never gone on strike
Because He was not treated fair
In things He didn't like.
If only once He'd given up,
And said, "That's it, I'm through!
I've had enough of those on Earth,
So this is what I'll do;
"I'll give my orders to the Sun -
'Cut off the heat supply!'
And to the moon - 'Give no more light -
And run the ocean dry.'
"Then just to make things really tough
And put the pressures on,
'Turn off the vital oxygen
Till every breath is gone!'"
You know, He would be justified
If fairness was the game.
For no one has been more abused
Or met with more disdain . . .
Than God, and yet He carries on.
Supplying you and me
With all the favors of His grace
And everything for free.
Men say they want a better deal
And so on strike they go.
But what a deal we've been given
From God, to whom all things we owe.
Yet we complain so very much
and gripe all we like,
But what a mess we'd all be in,
If God should go on strike!
