My whole life has been filled with new situations into which I walked without feeling qualified to do. I imagine I am not the only person facing this uncertainty.

Most of the stuff that I have done
I didn’t know what I was doing.
When I first had food in my mouth,
without teeth, I just started chewing

I didn’t know what to do at school
when I arrived on that first day.
But I bluffed at everything I did
so they would allow me to stay.

When my report card was given me
at the end of the year, I gasped.
‘cause I saw that inscription
that let me know I had passed.

This ritual was the same each year
I always feared that I would fail.
But every year I received good news
so I could travel on down the trail.

With seminary degree in hand
I went to serve some churches,
never knowing all I felt I should
to successfully face what lurches.

Now that I’ve retired from my work
and my life enters another stage.
I still don’t know what I’m doing
because I’ve never been this age.