You'd Think

You'd think with all my smarts I'd know You more,
O God, omniscient, Who gives knowledge free;
You'd think I'd want Your wisdom to explore,
and pray Your grace would more enlighten me.

I should remember St. Augustine too,
and his advice how to successful be,
to pray as if it all relied on You,
and work as if it all relied on me.

First, God, You grace us with our natural skill,
and then reveal to us Your mystery;
You give us freedom and our powerful will,
and then You leave it pretty much up to me.

O God, I pray You for humility,
that I use wisely all You give to me.

                       -- by Pete Voelz       3/06