God gave me a parking place today
Last time, I was talking about writing hymns/worship songs. I also write other faith-related songs, as a way of getting off my chest some of the more stupid and trite aspects of Christianity that annoy me.
I’ve just heard too many people say this. And it gets my goat everytime. Like God doesn’t have anything better to do than organise the universe around your own personal convenience.
God gave me a Parking Place Today (to the tune of Love Divine, or Hyfydrol)
God gave me a parking place to-day
Right outside the Tesco store
I was tired, and it was raining
But God opened heaven’s door
What care I for the homeless and helpless?
What care I about the poor?
God gave me a parking place to-day
Right outside the Tesco store.
‘I know that this is vitriol
No-solution spleen-venting
But I feel better having screamed on you.’
May 6th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Haha – that made me chuckle. Although I’ve never heard anyone say God gave them a parking space – it’s more often that Satan is attacking them if they don’t get one!
May 6th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
"Like God doesn’t have anything better to do than organise the universe around your own personal convenience" sounds rather like part of a "my God’s bigger than your God" argument:
Person A) My God’s so big he sorted me out a parking space by Tesco’s.
Person B) My God’s much bigger than that – he’s busy sorting out the starving refugees in Darfur and doesn’t have time to waste on parking spaces.
Person C) My God’s so big he can do both.
Matthew 10:29 and Luke 12:27-28 seem to make it pretty clear that God does concern himself with things that are utterly insignificant on a global scale. But he does not "take time out" to deal with those things – he does so alongside the big things.
The only problem is when people who talk about God finding them a parking space are oblivious to any issue that doesn’t directly impinge on them. Solipsism is not attractive.
May 12th, 2008 at 3:23 am
"Hail Mary, full of grace,
Help me find a parking space."
Always works.
December 14th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Nice article thanks for sharing!