Sean Winter http://seanthebaptist.typepad.com has got a great series of 'Idiot Psalms' written by Scott Cairns on his blog, or you could visit http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=182632 It includes the following which I think should be adopted by BUGB Council and Church meetings up and down the land. A psalm of Isaak, whispered mid the Philistines, beneath the breath.
Master both invisible and notoriously
slow to act, should You incline to fix
Your generous attentions for the moment
to the narrow scene of this our appointed
tedium, should You—once our kindly
secretary has duly noted which of us
is feigning presence, and which excused, which unexcused,
You may be entertained to hear how much we find to say
about so little. Among these other mediocrities,
Your mediocre servant gets a glimpse of how
his slow and meager worship might appear
from where You endlessly attend our dreariness.
Holy One, forgive, forgo and, if You will, fend off
from this my heart the sense that I am drowning here
amid the motions, the discussions, the several
questions endlessly recast, our paper ballots.
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