Are You There God? It's Me Again (Are You There God? It's Me, Becky* - Part 2)

Are you there, God?
It's me again.
I think I’m finding my way.
The road is still uneven and tangled with questions,
but somehow, I keep moving forward.

I can’t always see the next step,
but it turns out there are people who can help me.
The ones who light the path when I can’t see it,
who steady my hands when they shake,
who remind me that even doubt
can be part of faith.

Did you send them, God?
These voices, these hands, these hearts
that show up right when I need them?
They walk beside me,
hold the map when I lose sight of it,
whisper keep going when I forget how.

I used to think I had to do it alone,
had to have all the answers,
to carve my own way
through the wilderness of becoming me.

But now I see
that it was never meant to be lonely here.

So thank you for the ones who remind me,
who love me toward the light,
who make the world feel less like a maze
and more like a place where I belong.

Are you there, God?
I think you are.
I think you always were,
even when I couldn't find you.

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As before, the title is obviously and shamelessly borrowed from Judy Blume's novel, Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret.