The Acknowledgement

Each morning as I come awake

And sit up right away,

Acknowledging my God, I take

A moment out to say:

“I thank you, sir, for making me

Exactly as You would,

And, for you’re letting me to see

It, so it’s understood;

“For, if You didn’t tell me that,

I wouldn’t know it’s so,

As that is something to look at

In order I should know,

“That knowledge, in particular, 

I shouldn’t be without;

For, knowing who it is you are,

Is what life’s all about.”

As for my knowing how You give

Me life—I’m all the more 

Alive, ’cause, knowing that I live,

Might be what Life is for.