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Here’s one of my favorites, “A Field of Light,” by poet Theodore Roethke:
https://voetica.com/poem/492
And don’t overlook Herbert Vaughn:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2123&context=byusq
I know an agnostic (one who does not know whether God exists) who uses his agnostic attitude to justify his lack of commitment. But one of the great prayers in the Book of Mormon is the following agnostic prayer of King Lamoni’s father:
ALMA 22: 18
18 O God, Aaron hath told me that there is a God; and if there is a God, and if thou art God, wilt thou make thyself known unto me, and I will give away all my sins to know thee, and that I may be raised from the dead, and be saved at the last day. And now when the king had said these words, he was struck as if he were dead.
All agnostics can offer such a prayer and get an answer IF THEY ARE WILLING TO “give away all [THEIR] sins to know thee.”