This is embarrassing. I tend to speak to God when I’m in need. Yeah, that sounds pretty bad, I know. I’m not proud of it, but if I’m going to be completely honest, that’s been my history.
During these times, I typically ask Him for help and surprisingly enough, He tends to come through most of the time. No, I don’t ask to win the lottery, for a new car or to replace twenty pounds from my waistline with abs of steal. Nothing outlandish like that, even though I wouldn’t complain one bit with any of these. I typically ask for strength to endure, peace of mind or the occasional turn of events that shifts luck in my direction. I understand this sounds like a one way street and is probably frowned upon. I get it, but I’m just being honest.
I like the thought of divine intervention. But it’s occurred to me that the response to my ask might be further than the truth. It’s possible I already possessed the strength deep down inside, or I just needed time to cool off before peace of mind arrived. The laws of probability could explain the occasional statistical win as independent forces move fortunate events in my direction. All these can logically be true, but a little something inside me would like to think otherwise.
Where do I ultimately land? If you ask me today, my answer may be different from when you asked me yesterday. Deep down inside I know I’d like to throw logic out the window and believe someone was listening and lending a helping hand. Believing makes life a little bit easier knowing you are not standing in your corner alone. The short answer is, I don’t know. So maybe as I straddle the line, I’ll continue to go on with my asking spree, throwing it out there in the universe. It never hurts to ask, I’ve often heard. I’ll just make sure that it’s followed with gratitude and appreciation as well.
The Smiths released Ask in 1987. It’s really not a complicated song.
Ask is a pretty straightforward song. Morrissey tells the listener what he’s saying in How Soon is Now? in a more blunt way. You need to take action on doing things to make your life better…
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I’m aware I’m taking this song completely out of context. This really is a song about shyness, not God or spirituality, but I like the thought of someone giving me the green light to ask – even if it is God lip syncing the words in my imagination. Can’t you just imagine him saying:
Ask me, I won’t say “no”
How could I?
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Shyness is nice and shyness can stop you
From doing all the things in life you'd like to
Shyness is nice and shyness can stop you
From doing all the things in life you'd like to
So, if there's something you'd like to try
If there's something you'd like to try
Ask me, I won't say "no"
How could I?
Coyness is nice and coyness can stop you
From saying all the things in life you'd like to
So, if there's something you'd like to try
If there's something you'd like to try
Ask me, I won't say "no"
How could I?
Spending warm summer days indoors
Writing frightening verse
To a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg
Ask me, ask me, ask me
Ask me, ask me, ask me
Because if it's not love
Then it's the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb that will bring us together
Nature is a language – can't you read?
Nature is a language – can't you read?
So ask me, ask me, ask me
Ask me, ask me, ask me
Because if it's not love
Then it's the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb that will bring us together
If it's not love
Then it's the bomb
Then it's the bomb that will bring us together
So ask me, ask me, ask me
Ask me, ask me, ask me
MyGenXerLife 
I like the way you look at it. I can no longer be objective but I believe in something. I’m just not sure what. I too might have a different answer tomorrow.
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This can be a confusing path. I believe in God, but I also have a very practical, analytical, realist brain.
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I like this – made me smile…always a good thing (the song? Meh…)
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Thank you, Grace! In return, your comment made me smile, too. Yeah, the Smiths are hit and miss with people. One of my favorite bands, but you are not alone on this.
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I think you mentioned before how you hadn’t realized how many 80s songs referenced the atomic bomb. Same! I think between the Cold War and AIDS there was a sense that you might not get to grow old, so F*** it and ask her/him. Not so sure about God…
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I first heard this song on Louder Than Bombs CD. Yet another Cold War reference. How did I not recognize it growing up?
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Ask God if He is there and He will find the right moment to tell you. I was a Buddhist up until college, and then I became interested in knowing if He was real. So I asked Him. One day I was flipping through the radio and it stopped on a Christian radio statio. The first thing the radio host shouted was “God is real and He is here for you!” I felt a strange warmth I’ve never felt before and a cartoon lightbulb moment happened. I knew right then He was letting me know He exists. It is said that God answers those who earnestly search for Him.
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Thank you for that. I appreciate hearing your story and your advice. I’ll take this to heart.
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Same! I go back to God and pray when I’m desperate. 🫣
I like the lyrics of the song! It made me smile…
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Posts like this are so comforting. I’m reminded that not everyone in the room is throwing themselves on the floor and demanding to have their way/make everyone around them conform to what resonates most to them. A lot of us are living in the open question, as it were.
Refreshingly sane. 🙂
Amanda Palmer wrote a book, The Art of Asking, breaking through the barrier of trying to figure out and do everything on one’s own. It was an okay book, but odd that such a simple thing as reaching out to fellow humans, is a difficult thing for many of us to do. It seems to me when I ask what I deemed ‘beyond’ in my post, the response comes back through people, more like god as dimension than singular person. LOL Rambling, but thanks for this post.
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Thanks for commenting. I appreciate your perspective. That book sounds interesting. I’ve learned over the years that asking does not translate into weakness. I need some reminding, though.
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Indeed it does not!
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Wow I haven’t thought about Amanda Palmer for a minute. Glad to be reminded of her. She’s a unique soul.
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Certainly is!!
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I heard someone (a pastor) once say, “If you have doubt, that means you have faith.”
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That is an interesting perspective and I see what the wisdom of that statement. Thank you.
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I love the smiths and morrissey 😍
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My favorite…
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I think it’s pretty normal to only go to spirituality when in times of need or trouble. When we can make it more part of our lives, I think we gain a lot, as you’re alluding to. It then has a chance of becoming a habit. I’m working on it.
I enjoy Morrissey and the Smiths, though I find some of their songs sound too much like others of theirs. But his one is a good connection to the prompt and your honest response to it.
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It’s nice to hear you have an everyday relationship that is part if your life. That doesn’t surprise me, I can sense that from your writings and comments. It really shows through.
I get your comment about the Smiths. Although I do like solo Morrissey, my nostalgia is with the Smiths
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Thanks for your very kind words. I have to admit it’s not *every* day, though…
I gathered that about the Smiths as I’m sure you’ve shared other songs of theirs before.
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