tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-865633621628562292024-03-15T20:09:47.025-05:00crumbs from His tablePrayers, poems, and essays feasting on scraps of God's gracetinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.comBlogger868125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-27270207330379485102024-03-15T16:01:00.004-05:002024-03-15T16:04:20.409-05:00A Prayer for Hard Medical Anniversaries<figure >
<figcaption>Listen to me read the audio file</figcaption>
<audio controls
src="https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1QiUXe3ajvAXF2F_G-fygAsNuHUnUC9uu&export=download (https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1QiUXe3ajvAXF2F_G-fygAsNuHUnUC9uu&export=download)" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
</figure>
<style>figure {margin: 0;} </style>
<div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Click <a href="https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1QiUXe3ajvAXF2F_G-fygAsNuHUnUC9uu&export=download" target="_blank">here</a> to listen to me pray this over you.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkwR-C3UK8-GkWN5s_xYu7q4hnEK8Pn-H2ZI5BZbyq-PNDxiY5V_9LNfHQmRKFuHL8qlgHVZFVCSuIXv-J4R281nMZ9TYhMZ80IYOE2GxayVmnYyQFIKXTPbhyphenhyphenKn7OORa2WYRnzbn6faPUQ5w5S9ZFNHF4PxbIoPcm_PBkCG310RtT9_GEmycKYah5TwY/s1920/IMG_0970.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A Prayer for Hard Medical Anniversaries God of Hope, God of all comfort, God of healing: This day marks a sorrowful anniversary— So many years since the illness that continues to change my life, Since the cancer diagnosis, Since the accident, Since the medical label that transformed every aspect of my days. It is a death without a grave, Grief without a funeral Or other rights of communal mourning and lament. You alone truly understand the depth of my heartache And the distinct sorrow of those who love me and share my burden, Weighted by it alongside but outside me. I grieve the old me that may never return, The holistic, multifaceted cost of this illness, this disability, The choices my body makes for me, The freedoms and dreams and hope stripped away, The damage to cherished relationships, The missed community celebrations, the exclusions, the lost opportunities, The time redirected to medical tasks, The increased energy required for the most basic personal tasks. I grieve the invisible, unspoken milestones like the last time I was healthy in my dreams, The last time I went to church or a concert or a wedding or a graduation, The last time I ran or hiked or danced Or worked or cleaned or cooked Or spent a day making music or curled up in a bookshop chair, The last time I could take a shower without careful planning and pacing. I grieve the hurtful words denying or blaming me for my weakness, The realization that much of society regards me as both "less than" and "too much," The shame and gaslighting." border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkwR-C3UK8-GkWN5s_xYu7q4hnEK8Pn-H2ZI5BZbyq-PNDxiY5V_9LNfHQmRKFuHL8qlgHVZFVCSuIXv-J4R281nMZ9TYhMZ80IYOE2GxayVmnYyQFIKXTPbhyphenhyphenKn7OORa2WYRnzbn6faPUQ5w5S9ZFNHF4PxbIoPcm_PBkCG310RtT9_GEmycKYah5TwY/w360-h640/IMG_0970.png" width="360" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">A Prayer for Hard Medical Anniversaries</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">God of Hope, God of all comfort, God of healing:</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">This day marks a sorrowful anniversary—</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">So many years since the illness that continues to change my life,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">Since the cancer diagnosis,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">Since the accident,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">Since the medical label that transformed every aspect of my days.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">It is a death without a grave,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">Grief without a funeral</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">Or other rights of communal mourning and lament.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">You alone truly understand the depth of my heartache</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">And the distinct sorrow of those who love me and share my burden,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">Weighted by it alongside but outside me.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">I grieve the old me that may never return,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">The holistic, multifaceted cost of this illness, this disability,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">The choices my body makes for me,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">The freedoms and dreams and hope stripped away,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">The damage to cherished relationships,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">The missed community celebrations, the exclusions, the lost opportunities,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">The time redirected to medical tasks,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">The increased energy required for the most basic personal tasks.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">I grieve the invisible, unspoken milestones</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">like the last time I was healthy in my dreams,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">The last time I went to church or a concert or a wedding or a graduation,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">The last time I ran or hiked or danced</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">Or worked or cleaned or cooked</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">Or spent a day making music or curled up in a bookshop chair,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">The last time I could take a shower without careful planning and pacing.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">I grieve the hurtful words denying or blaming me for my weakness,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">The realization that much of society regards me as both "less than" and "too much,"</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">The shame and gaslighting.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7zBCwFYOTF5rM53cDEdGHRV25G9ucVEaDmx3oBsmsKyVkaU39bR-ooO8XkOaVluuz9AhGg6Yd-oTsWPGL_ILRKstN01ol8FspHuNrJDohyLAzeewXnlR3QnJktOfdUR0uuxrhIOg1ZEz6XM_V3rwkMsaPme5uDWkWojki7pqfkwFOWMrH6TXhHJThEaI/s1920/C8FE428F-6D4B-44A3-ADB3-8A9D0CABDB35.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Come alongside me today, Abba Father, Suffering Savior, Counselor, Comforter, Advocate. Comfort the sadness; Make Your loving presence known; Guide and provide in medical care; Cure this affliction if You will; Heal my heart, even if my body never recovers in the land of the living. Thank You for Your promises, Your presence, Your intimate companionship even when I am most alone. Thank You for knowing, loving, and holding me in my brokenness, Though all others forsake me. Thank You for what You have disclosed of Yourself through my desperate dependence, For Your strength in my weakness, For the sufficiency of Your grace in my thorn. Thank You for the precious gifts of kind words and practical help, For the foul-weather friends who have stood fast at my side and wept with me, For the companions in the same medical storm And our fellowship in these sufferings. Thank You for the hope that this same trial is actively producing for me An exceeding, eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, that it is not wasted but generative." border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7zBCwFYOTF5rM53cDEdGHRV25G9ucVEaDmx3oBsmsKyVkaU39bR-ooO8XkOaVluuz9AhGg6Yd-oTsWPGL_ILRKstN01ol8FspHuNrJDohyLAzeewXnlR3QnJktOfdUR0uuxrhIOg1ZEz6XM_V3rwkMsaPme5uDWkWojki7pqfkwFOWMrH6TXhHJThEaI/w360-h640/C8FE428F-6D4B-44A3-ADB3-8A9D0CABDB35.png" width="360" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;"><br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">Come alongside me today, Abba Father,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">Suffering Savior,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">Counselor, Comforter, Advocate.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">Comfort the sadness;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">Make Your loving presence known;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">Guide and provide in medical care;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">Cure this affliction if You will;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;">Heal my heart, even if my body never recovers in the land of the living.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Thank You for Your promises,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Your presence,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Your intimate companionship even when I am most alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Thank You for knowing, loving, and holding me in my brokenness,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Though all others forsake me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Thank You for what You have disclosed of Yourself through my desperate dependence,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">For Your strength in my weakness,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">For the sufficiency of Your grace in my thorn.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Thank You for the precious gifts of kind words and practical help,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">For the foul-weather friends who have stood fast at my side and wept with me,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">For the companions in the same medical storm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">And our fellowship in these sufferings.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Thank You for the hope that this same trial is actively producing for me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">An exceeding, eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">that it is not wasted but generative.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyFCM0zYiNzJXPNKXx0LTyRNhi5P7INGYswUdZWWtlYWPcXnp2Q8qA8Eb50VAhnTU_LeauSVxNSzDAm3JqHMgzXDoUjixJdjUfn-WhwFpWMBGevPiNg91ULylY2FAdRgZ3adrmLydHs0R1mkD-0WnmBwK57WQBSRmPeuXTZUnDGIJJ9VICBKc-a6hH8kk/s1920/8A3EDA98-83DC-40DB-A106-FB79E1F689A0.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Thank You for Your love which conquers, redeems, and transforms all, Even this, Into glorious good. Thank You for using this to make me more like my Savior. Thank You that nothing disables me from knowing You— Which is true and eternal life— Or from knowing Christ in the power of His resurrection And the fellowship of His sufferings. Thank You for the hope of glory, For the whole, glorious, redeemed body You are preparing for me in the day of resurrection, For the hope of no more death, no more alienation, no more tears, For the hope of all these locust-eaten years to be restored. Thank You for the everlasting promise You will be with me now, In the pain and weakness and difficulty, In the loneliness, That You will hold my hand, That underneath are the everlasting arms, That I am loved with an everlasting love. But today, Lord, I grieve. I hurt. I lament. The brokenness overwhelms. I want enduring hope, but even that must be Your gift. I believe; help my unbelief, In Jesus’ name. Amen. Crlm, 3/15/24, Long Covid Awareness Day" border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyFCM0zYiNzJXPNKXx0LTyRNhi5P7INGYswUdZWWtlYWPcXnp2Q8qA8Eb50VAhnTU_LeauSVxNSzDAm3JqHMgzXDoUjixJdjUfn-WhwFpWMBGevPiNg91ULylY2FAdRgZ3adrmLydHs0R1mkD-0WnmBwK57WQBSRmPeuXTZUnDGIJJ9VICBKc-a6hH8kk/w360-h640/8A3EDA98-83DC-40DB-A106-FB79E1F689A0.png" width="360" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Thank You for Your love which conquers, redeems, and transforms all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Even this,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Into glorious good.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Thank You for using this to make me more like my Savior.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Thank You that nothing disables me from knowing You—<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Which is true and eternal life—<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Or from knowing Christ in the power of His resurrection<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">And the fellowship of His sufferings.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Thank You for the hope of glory,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">For the whole, glorious, redeemed body You are preparing for me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">in the day of resurrection,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">For the hope of no more death, no more alienation, no more tears,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">For the hope of all these locust-eaten years to be restored.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Thank You for the everlasting promise You will be with me now,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">In the pain and weakness and difficulty,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">In the loneliness,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">That You will hold my hand,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">That underneath are the everlasting arms,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">That I am loved with an everlasting love.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">But today, Lord, I grieve.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I hurt. I lament.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The brokenness overwhelms.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I want enduring hope, but even that must be Your gift.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I believe; help my unbelief,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">In Jesus’ name.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'georgia',serif;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p> <p><br /></p><p><br /></p> </div> </div><div></div> tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-57930837605797648442024-03-10T16:52:00.000-05:002024-03-10T16:52:19.104-05:00A Prayer When You Don’t Know What to Pray<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Md43ZWfCfoqYMF-bWoUKR7BJf3gcMb5vZHrKulAnEV21VC5EIOVUWpPm8fWcJfDEwfyoWwyEdF3A5Zv7QNp_7Q1ey5dSTSq4EL5SZ8aPWr2ECLYuLqsVeofkgD8IQj7aCrmd1kAiOaT0K3-v2RduSBb0FA-Jr3I8J5WB4ttelWm54c9Fjpo8VBJ4jzo/s6000/DSC_0963.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Md43ZWfCfoqYMF-bWoUKR7BJf3gcMb5vZHrKulAnEV21VC5EIOVUWpPm8fWcJfDEwfyoWwyEdF3A5Zv7QNp_7Q1ey5dSTSq4EL5SZ8aPWr2ECLYuLqsVeofkgD8IQj7aCrmd1kAiOaT0K3-v2RduSBb0FA-Jr3I8J5WB4ttelWm54c9Fjpo8VBJ4jzo/w640-h426/DSC_0963.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA-p13FMrWBliq25WqEblJu5sTBAP1DnpvrhjhJfXPu-b9fMpfCrBZK-7s3pxV_6ArsC9ofAePUMHam_3CwfG3QmgKN6g33ZQ7EMihivonzWRVdXhEwQnz_5u2jNLwvYbxDPMZk81W36jipL7xK2AA7YRlgG7abcMsJ9QH5epGGN8uXPYp-SeEv4YvHv8/s5392/DSC_0463.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3592" data-original-width="5392" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA-p13FMrWBliq25WqEblJu5sTBAP1DnpvrhjhJfXPu-b9fMpfCrBZK-7s3pxV_6ArsC9ofAePUMHam_3CwfG3QmgKN6g33ZQ7EMihivonzWRVdXhEwQnz_5u2jNLwvYbxDPMZk81W36jipL7xK2AA7YRlgG7abcMsJ9QH5epGGN8uXPYp-SeEv4YvHv8/w640-h426/DSC_0463.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV5x2iO6z20bveomwcluoVYH0OxwjhFgAdtulicCjSpUAyRm_4h-3V6lB_dyG8ShKh-ZxuLzZattESmnwDT8rUGTudzG7rCE6V7skdJwxIw05NqwZPsoqEtGEdorN3Mz5CDf3ZeZwUwR2TCe2nlih4WnVl85g0kTAEgJwWTp5AxHnkuOrsrICotzL0Nmg/s5392/DSC_0473.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3592" data-original-width="5392" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV5x2iO6z20bveomwcluoVYH0OxwjhFgAdtulicCjSpUAyRm_4h-3V6lB_dyG8ShKh-ZxuLzZattESmnwDT8rUGTudzG7rCE6V7skdJwxIw05NqwZPsoqEtGEdorN3Mz5CDf3ZeZwUwR2TCe2nlih4WnVl85g0kTAEgJwWTp5AxHnkuOrsrICotzL0Nmg/w640-h426/DSC_0473.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAo_bjd4QqYT983c0bJhChzC7RXSmyAWP6qJ4ZfcYmEK_R9vj-3A5u840AbKvZ5NQIFdAI-XGMvB2QNJzzpSjGNPgNx8AIwxO5x_iBrR4uJ15B1MLIzPRXxJBd2Qr2xP3fjy36Nq1cR4V6yEqTQwiQj9C3yJvR2QQzBqcJjgfW0dMyQ74iQQrTWZBAvp0/s5392/DSC_0467.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3592" data-original-width="5392" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAo_bjd4QqYT983c0bJhChzC7RXSmyAWP6qJ4ZfcYmEK_R9vj-3A5u840AbKvZ5NQIFdAI-XGMvB2QNJzzpSjGNPgNx8AIwxO5x_iBrR4uJ15B1MLIzPRXxJBd2Qr2xP3fjy36Nq1cR4V6yEqTQwiQj9C3yJvR2QQzBqcJjgfW0dMyQ74iQQrTWZBAvp0/w640-h426/DSC_0467.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN6EjDdKTfCbCEWsi3-X5cPrV3fT5mey1sYqBIDf527UhxHEuD6Q0hSUHRj_7244J8Q3R_TIOihoGoUmMijVlQ4pjp6c9Z-OLt4kNst6ewEbAq-lzaLf0jHqlPXe644oytjGQkN-ve0Sx_LB6GCGHPW59HsUS-09kmh0vHukrh-WvrT29e4kfFYhFMDDc/s5392/DSC_0462.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3592" data-original-width="5392" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN6EjDdKTfCbCEWsi3-X5cPrV3fT5mey1sYqBIDf527UhxHEuD6Q0hSUHRj_7244J8Q3R_TIOihoGoUmMijVlQ4pjp6c9Z-OLt4kNst6ewEbAq-lzaLf0jHqlPXe644oytjGQkN-ve0Sx_LB6GCGHPW59HsUS-09kmh0vHukrh-WvrT29e4kfFYhFMDDc/w640-h426/DSC_0462.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcARimSAaefAeJUibZAhrARSivVQnTFKnqg7P2hcg2o_C_02n2mXX7ky2334zYb-k55P0RvsI5GRPcyYKbyWIWS9zU9936emYLpO6_N3bPoR0g22wWiyzODHY4a4na8AN2_jNgfvjSWOcskKoQZog-ObigEHFHbb80H1cIZ5Z_u5pKzrzCPo8iGk3iG14/s5392/DSC_0457.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3592" data-original-width="5392" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcARimSAaefAeJUibZAhrARSivVQnTFKnqg7P2hcg2o_C_02n2mXX7ky2334zYb-k55P0RvsI5GRPcyYKbyWIWS9zU9936emYLpO6_N3bPoR0g22wWiyzODHY4a4na8AN2_jNgfvjSWOcskKoQZog-ObigEHFHbb80H1cIZ5Z_u5pKzrzCPo8iGk3iG14/w640-h426/DSC_0457.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNLprJVu6RyiCZ1COrszB0fGB1yvELBhlp4BxbaljMzHUGvslPT20Z4pOJhyphenhyphenJp3OtMOjx5JeLt7A2jrgvyv8_q-kK8HOz74qX8rSkVBtqCb2d1Sb5SJavg6pB8N2ZJ23Gx9D86Nw7op3Vtb2vwXajPv445G66aUWKFp8g9lZyUWfs_MNdmkQ9EFebpR3c/s5392/DSC_0455.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5392" data-original-width="3592" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNLprJVu6RyiCZ1COrszB0fGB1yvELBhlp4BxbaljMzHUGvslPT20Z4pOJhyphenhyphenJp3OtMOjx5JeLt7A2jrgvyv8_q-kK8HOz74qX8rSkVBtqCb2d1Sb5SJavg6pB8N2ZJ23Gx9D86Nw7op3Vtb2vwXajPv445G66aUWKFp8g9lZyUWfs_MNdmkQ9EFebpR3c/w426-h640/DSC_0455.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNN5opBtmCF4c-LGbiD8Q5E5ZAWUUGHaay5OrhmT0tSC0lus5h5WGGqStyTmH-SjoD1y-S-vQ6ZTfTbSTljY5zkFeTlXvKw4UZf85PMrkiHwK40NEiu2v5Zq3l0Fi7M0iGA_9NM9UzINaQQpslDxRyfak-ggu8kKeMX1cLTWz0MY6P2uA5z7TrCtveDiU/s5392/DSC_0453.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3592" data-original-width="5392" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNN5opBtmCF4c-LGbiD8Q5E5ZAWUUGHaay5OrhmT0tSC0lus5h5WGGqStyTmH-SjoD1y-S-vQ6ZTfTbSTljY5zkFeTlXvKw4UZf85PMrkiHwK40NEiu2v5Zq3l0Fi7M0iGA_9NM9UzINaQQpslDxRyfak-ggu8kKeMX1cLTWz0MY6P2uA5z7TrCtveDiU/w640-h426/DSC_0453.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjLRpc_LnnQY50eJn1lrrqYn0AFddtZf-Q6tSptR4cahaFAkMkuSzQSFdbqGf5nBnx6A8O8mSEzuc-ehKRgiD0a4hebZHCCOtBIYHX2Xkta5nYFOtK-OlUsfr91pRbqE9eHToAOtmh-MhxwkeF3FpqZ7rw4VX0NNSgFC2XVblOzanwjnOlGfnTY081TEw/s5392/DSC_0448.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3592" data-original-width="5392" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjLRpc_LnnQY50eJn1lrrqYn0AFddtZf-Q6tSptR4cahaFAkMkuSzQSFdbqGf5nBnx6A8O8mSEzuc-ehKRgiD0a4hebZHCCOtBIYHX2Xkta5nYFOtK-OlUsfr91pRbqE9eHToAOtmh-MhxwkeF3FpqZ7rw4VX0NNSgFC2XVblOzanwjnOlGfnTY081TEw/w640-h426/DSC_0448.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj49pSqdkA8_nZnrgJs6jR036D_kP2WO2HsLlE8gm-CXx9KGSiH5qqX3lVBA_xjm2gKs30VNX0jnABAD7ZZYG8_1SRHBzreqmTPH0BAN6WlJQpcHBdVAWy8GtyicGyjA3WquhJ58BUhKwD5pFCW7erCJKSEtE69FA4C9-aNKgFpsnZOS35lAedItzRZvgc/s2000/IMG_8867.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Black text of Fénelon prayer on translucent beige background over photo of pear blossoms" border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1545" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj49pSqdkA8_nZnrgJs6jR036D_kP2WO2HsLlE8gm-CXx9KGSiH5qqX3lVBA_xjm2gKs30VNX0jnABAD7ZZYG8_1SRHBzreqmTPH0BAN6WlJQpcHBdVAWy8GtyicGyjA3WquhJ58BUhKwD5pFCW7erCJKSEtE69FA4C9-aNKgFpsnZOS35lAedItzRZvgc/w494-h640/IMG_8867.png" width="494" /></a></div>
<figure>
<figcaption>Listen to me read the audio file</figcaption>
<audio controls="" src="https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1iEIhXXgGRvRBjbEzcjWp8x76J_6uhUvl&export=download" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
</figure>
<style>figure {margin: 0;} </style>
<br /><p><i><a href="https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1iEIhXXgGRvRBjbEzcjWp8x76J_6uhUvl&export=download" target="_blank">Click here to listen to me praying this post over you.</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>“Lord,</p><p>I know not what I ought to ask of Thee;</p><p>Thou only knowest what I need:</p><p>Thou lovest me better than I know how to love myself.</p><p>O Father! Give to Thy child that which he himself knows not how to ask.</p><p>I dare not ask for crosses or consolations,</p><p>I simply present myself before Thee,</p><p>I open my heart to Thee.</p><p>Behold my needs which I know not myself;</p><p>See and do according to Thy tender mercy.</p><p>Smite or heal; depress me or raise me up;</p><p>I adore all Thy purposes without knowing them;</p><p>I am silent; I offer myself in sacrifice;</p><p>I yield myself to Thee;</p><p>I would have no other desire than to accomplish Thy will.</p><p>Teach me to pray. </p><p>Pray Thyself in me.</p><p>Amen.”</p><p><br /></p><p>~François de la Mothe Fénelon (1651-1715)</p>tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-87312468510254688492024-03-01T17:40:00.006-06:002024-03-01T20:32:07.410-06:00Anchorhold<figure>
<figcaption>Listen to me read the audio file</figcaption>
<audio controls src="https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1T5rwX6MOBnJrxvwnOprn_HE3g9QI68iE&export=download" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
</figure>
<style>figure {margin: 0;} </style>
<div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"> <p><i>If the embedded audio player does not work, <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T5rwX6MOBnJrxvwnOprn_HE3g9QI68iE/view?usp=drivesdk">you may listen here</a>.</i></p><p>Anchorhold: A Poem</p> <p> </p> <p>Here I am, suburban <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorite">anchorite</a>:</p> <p>Chronic illness my cloister,</p> <p>My home my hermitage,</p> <p>Caregiving my enclosure.</p> <p>My bare voice sings praise alone in my cell</p> <p>With the absent-present congregants in my ears.</p> <p>The mockingbird leads the avian chorus;</p> <p>I pass the peace to the dragonfly on perched on the other side of the glass.</p> <p>I pass along the comfort I receive</p> <p>From the Father of mercies.</p> <p>A living stone, embedded in the temple of the Body,</p> <p>Walled in, communion mediated by windows </p><p>In my wall, on my desk, in my hand,</p> <p>Attached yet excluded—</p> <p>Invisible illness hiding me invisibly away</p> <p>From the rest of the body—yet still part of it,</p> <p>Never parted from my Head, the Beloved.</p> <p>I am a suburban anchorite,</p> <p>But the burdens and bricks which anchor me here</p> <p>Anchor me to Christ.</p> </div> </div><div></div> tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-78284909010405966632024-02-17T12:05:00.004-06:002024-02-17T12:05:44.787-06:00Lenten Valentine Prayer<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div dir="auto"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKi11q4dDfT7f3JsPIQcWQlKooj9tGJ9KMd8NvEfX19DtMmdGL1oTCuCDgmsv-uZRUREwhSrzcsBz4S-xVEvBAZp-NCS-jFP7VYags96r6DcXiJ6PYWTELkV5MoWVIN2FwFuAwsaQxJ1Y_RcJ9hAtBhN1YGTduOf7b1sqk55dvmiAtrJIs__E4oS4VH1A/s2000/Neat%20Flower%20Shop%20Flyer.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1294" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKi11q4dDfT7f3JsPIQcWQlKooj9tGJ9KMd8NvEfX19DtMmdGL1oTCuCDgmsv-uZRUREwhSrzcsBz4S-xVEvBAZp-NCS-jFP7VYags96r6DcXiJ6PYWTELkV5MoWVIN2FwFuAwsaQxJ1Y_RcJ9hAtBhN1YGTduOf7b1sqk55dvmiAtrJIs__E4oS4VH1A/w414-h640/Neat%20Flower%20Shop%20Flyer.png" width="414" /></a></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">O Lord, fountain of ineffable and inexhaustible lovingkindness,</div><div dir="auto">Untiring and undeterred Lover of our souls,</div><div dir="auto">We confess that we have squandered our strength, our moments, and our very selves,</div><div dir="auto">Wearying souls and bodies in pursuit of what is not love and does not satisfy.</div><div dir="auto">Our adulterous hearts were made to love and be loved by You, our heavenly Bridegroom,</div><div dir="auto">Whose love alone does not fade or fail, falter or break faith.</div><div dir="auto">Rescue us from our idols;</div><div dir="auto">Prune away our worthless, barren loves;</div><div dir="auto">Open more of our hearts to yourself, whose love is life;</div><div dir="auto">Replace our stony sin-stained hearts with new hearts, tender towards you;</div><div dir="auto">So awaken our souls to your love, that we cannot but wholly cleave to you;</div><div dir="auto">Captivate our every affection with your loveliness;</div><div dir="auto">Console the desolate hearts with your mercies;</div><div dir="auto">Embrace the lonely hearts with your delight;</div><div dir="auto">Soothe the fearful hearts with your peace;</div><div dir="auto">Heal the broken hearts with your compassion;</div><div dir="auto">Seek out the wandering hearts with the wooing of your Spirit.</div><div dir="auto">O Lord, who loved us to and through the cross,</div><div dir="auto">Expand and expurgate our hearts to better love You who loved us first,</div><div dir="auto">Without whom we would not know love at all.</div><div dir="auto">In the name of the fairest and loveliest Lord Jesus we pray. Amen.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">To receive these posts by email, please sign up here:</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"> <a href="http://eepurl.com/hCJ9Z1">http://eepurl.com/<br /></a></div></div></div><br /><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div> tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-22433156717420965672024-02-07T10:45:00.018-06:002024-02-11T12:24:28.964-06:00Psalm 27 and the Hope of Three O’Clock in the Morning<figure>
<figcaption>Listen to me read the audio file</figcaption>
<audio controls="" src="https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1Xdpd8sJjHp6I8qjVYItK5ocSuPLoW5cR&export=download" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
</figure>
<style>figure {margin: 0;} </style>
<div> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta> <meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta> <meta content="Microsoft Word 15" name="Generator"></meta> <meta content="Microsoft Word 15" name="Originator"></meta> <link href="file:////private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/67985D1B-AAC2-4F9F-A2A3-34F879727DB9/tmp/msohtmlclip/clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link> <link href="file:////private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/67985D1B-AAC2-4F9F-A2A3-34F879727DB9/tmp/msohtmlclip/clip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link> <link href="file:////private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/67985D1B-AAC2-4F9F-A2A3-34F879727DB9/tmp/msohtmlclip/clip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Wingdings; panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:2; mso-generic-font-family:decorative; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:0 268435456 0 0 -2147483648 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536869121 1107305727 33554432 0 415 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073786111 1 0 415 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-font-kerning:1.0pt; mso-ligatures:standardcontextual; mso-bidi-language:HE;} p.MsoFooter, li.MsoFooter, div.MsoFooter {mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-link:"Footer Char"; margin:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; tab-stops:center 3.25in right 6.5in; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-font-kerning:1.0pt; mso-ligatures:standardcontextual; mso-bidi-language:HE;} p.MsoListParagraph, li.MsoListParagraph, div.MsoListParagraph {mso-style-priority:34; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in; mso-add-space:auto; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-font-kerning:1.0pt; mso-ligatures:standardcontextual; mso-bidi-language:HE;} p.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst {mso-style-priority:34; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-type:export-only; margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in; mso-add-space:auto; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-font-kerning:1.0pt; mso-ligatures:standardcontextual; mso-bidi-language:HE;} p.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle {mso-style-priority:34; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-type:export-only; margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in; mso-add-space:auto; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-font-kerning:1.0pt; mso-ligatures:standardcontextual; mso-bidi-language:HE;} p.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast {mso-style-priority:34; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-type:export-only; margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in; mso-add-space:auto; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-font-kerning:1.0pt; mso-ligatures:standardcontextual; mso-bidi-language:HE;} span.FooterChar {mso-style-name:"Footer Char"; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-locked:yes; mso-style-link:Footer;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language:HE;} @page WordSection1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.5in 1.0in 1.5in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} /* List Definitions */ @list l0 {mso-list-id:812865045; mso-list-type:hybrid; mso-list-template-ids:1790241864 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693;} @list l0:level1 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Symbol;} @list l0:level2 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:o; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:"Courier New";} @list l0:level3 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Wingdings;} @list l0:level4 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Symbol;} @list l0:level5 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:o; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:"Courier New";} @list l0:level6 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Wingdings;} @list l0:level7 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Symbol;} @list l0:level8 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:o; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:"Courier New";} @list l0:level9 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Wingdings;} @list l1 {mso-list-id:1063943507; mso-list-type:hybrid; mso-list-template-ids:1510351088 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693;} @list l1:level1 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Symbol;} @list l1:level2 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:o; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:"Courier New";} @list l1:level3 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Wingdings;} @list l1:level4 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Symbol;} @list l1:level5 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:o; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:"Courier New";} @list l1:level6 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Wingdings;} @list l1:level7 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Symbol;} @list l1:level8 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:o; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:"Courier New";} @list l1:level9 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Wingdings;} ol {margin-bottom:0in;} ul {margin-bottom:0in;} --> </style> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xdpd8sJjHp6I8qjVYItK5ocSuPLoW5cR/view?usp=sharing">To listen in your browser, click here.</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqyFWLWAHJOR-znnv_5c-ABdgTM36v_u9KzMNmBfYP5naFxi5JLKRq67P6ZBeE1bsp9ePTgRAk4JqEIXPFQBEu4h-5Wk7WdN2vkwHt8nvjlFIs0XxIF0an2BS4Zyc8Cxcrujje-RBhiwpPuj7Is25aURICakgpHlegEUEMp8LrEMaaVyKlKxaNee_8PFg/s4032/IMG_8641.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqyFWLWAHJOR-znnv_5c-ABdgTM36v_u9KzMNmBfYP5naFxi5JLKRq67P6ZBeE1bsp9ePTgRAk4JqEIXPFQBEu4h-5Wk7WdN2vkwHt8nvjlFIs0XxIF0an2BS4Zyc8Cxcrujje-RBhiwpPuj7Is25aURICakgpHlegEUEMp8LrEMaaVyKlKxaNee_8PFg/w640-h480/IMG_8641.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Teach me your way, Lord; </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">lead me in a straight path because of my oppressors. </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes, </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">for false witnesses rise up against me,</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>spouting malicious accusations. </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">I remain confident of this: </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">I will see the goodness of the Lord </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">in the land of the living. </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wait for the Lord; </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">be strong and take heart </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">and wait for the Lord."</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Psalm </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">27:</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">11-</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">14 </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">NIV</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Imagine this: you are besieged by wicked enemies and foes; an army has you surrounded; false witnesses are spreading lies about you; you are on the run, hunted by people who want only to do you harm.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">What would your first response be in that situation? If you are a Christian, I hope it would be to pray.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">What kind of prayer would rise first from your heart and lips? For me, it might only be the name of Jesus. Or maybe, "Lord, help!" Or perhaps, "Lord, have mercy!"</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">David is in exactly that situation in Psalm 27. Returning to the beginning, we see references to his desperate circumstances all the way through. But his first-response prayer looks quite different from mine. He begins by proclaiming his confidence in God and seeking Him above all things.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Context</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is the fifth essay in our series reflecting on Psalm 27. In this Psalm, God through David has given us a prayer-song for when we are afraid of the dark: whatever kind of dark, whether literal darkness or emotional and spiritual darkness. David seeks shelter in God's personal presence with confidence borne out of His past rescues, and so can we.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the first post, we consider the themes and structure of the prayer as a whole. In the second post, we see how David describes his experience of God's saving defense (1-3). In the third post (4-6), David expresses his expectant desire for God's sheltering presence, his "one thing": to dwell with and behold his God. In the previous post, we see David shift from talking about God to talking to God directly (7-10). He pleads for the Lord's favor and fellowship, and by the end of the section he has found solace in the assurance that the Lord will receive him, no matter what the people around him might do.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In this fourth section (11-13), David continues to plead to God directly, this time for God's protection and direction. As we begin to wrap up the Psalm, he finally arrives where I might have begun.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Call</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">After <i>proclaiming</i> God's praise, <i>pursuing</i> His fellowship, and <i>praying</i> for His presence, David now calls out or <i>pleads</i> for help with the immediate earthly problems.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">David seeks direction.<br /> "Teach me your way, Lord;<br /> Lead me in a straight path…" (11).</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">David seeks deliverance.<br /> "Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes" (12).</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">David implies he wants vindication.<br /> "…for false witnesses rise up against me, spouting malicious accusations" (12b).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">And that is the extent of his practical requests. Pretty simple, given the fraught circumstances.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Confidence</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">From those brief prayers, David concludes the section, as with the previous three sections, with a statement of confidence in God:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">"I remain confident of this:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">I will see the goodness of the LORD</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the land of the living" (13).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">David <i>remains</i> confident. The confidence he had at the beginning of the prayer has not left him. He remains <i>confident</i>. He is convinced that God can do what He promises. He is convinced that he will see the LORD's <i>goodness</i>, benevolence, and favor, that the LORD—no matter what comes—will not mistreat him. Finally, he remains confident of this goodness "<i>in the land of the living</i>."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">My default interpretation of that final line of the section was that David was speaking spiritually. I assumed that he was referring to the afterlife, that he could stay confident because he knew that even if the worst happened with the present enemies, he would be in heaven with God, so all would be well.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">And I was wrong.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Those ideas weren't wrong, in and of themselves. But they were the wrong interpretation here, in this small swatch of a whole prayer-poem.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Why do I say that?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">That musical lyric, "in the land of the living," which we have heard and sung so many times, is not unique to this Psalm. There are a number of idioms or "stock phrases" which appear unchanged or nearly unchanged across the Old Testament. This phrase is one of those, and in several of the other occurrences, it clearly means, "on earth," in this roller coaster of a journey from conception to the grave.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Consider these examples:</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">"For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling; I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living" (Psalm </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">116:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">8-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">9 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">ESV).<br /> <i>There death is contrasted with walking in the land of the living.</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">"But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah" (Psalm </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">52:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">5 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">ESV).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Here death is described as being uprooted from the land of the living.</span></i></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">"I said, I shall not see the Lord, the Lord in the land of the living; I shall look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world" (Isaiah </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">38:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">11 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">ESV).<br /> <i>Here again, physical death—no longer looking upon the inhabitants of the world—is the end of life in the land of the living.</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">"By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?" (Isaiah </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">53:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">8 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">ESV).<br /> <i>This predicts the substitutionary death of Messiah, fulfilled in Jesus. At the cross as He breathed His last, he was "cut off out of the land of the living."</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Assyria is there, and all her company, its graves all around it, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit; and her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living" (Ezekiel </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">32:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">22-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">23 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">ESV).<br /> <i>The slain enemies of Israel used to spread terror in the land of the living and died as a consequence.</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">"But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, 'Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.'" (Jeremiah </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">11:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">19 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">ESV).<br /> <i>One more time, the land of the living is a metaphor for the physical, earthly life.</i><br /> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Why did I spend so much time on that point? So that you can see what I saw without simply taking my word for it, because this idea proves important in understanding and applying the Psalm as a whole.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">If "the land of the living" is David's earthly life and not the afterlife, but he is currently hunted, falsely accused, and surrounded by mortal enemies, how is he so sure that he will see the goodness of God right here and right now? One might suggest that he is confident because God always gives us what we ask if we have enough faith. Without belaboring that point at present, I will say that the rest of Scripture contradicts that interpretation. If you disagree, perhaps we can discuss it another time.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">The other alternative, which I believe is correct, seamlessly connects to the rest of this prayer. What is David's deepest core desire in all of life? To dwell with his God.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">"One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Psalm </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">27:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">4 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">NIV</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">What, consequently, is David's deepest fear? David's deepest fear is not military defeat or death; it is to lose God's presence, for God to turn away from him in anger.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">"One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. My heart says of you, "Seek his face!" Your face, Lord, I will seek. Do not hide your face from me, do not turn your servant away in anger; you have been my helper. Do not reject me or forsake me, God my Savior."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Psalm </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">27:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">4, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">8-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">9 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">NIV</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">David has assured himself in the previous sections of this prayer that his greatest desire will be given and his greatest fear will not come to pass. Knowing this, knowing that—no matter what—he will go through it in the companionship of God, he remains confident. We might almost say that this foreshadows Paul's statement in Philippians 3 that knowing Christ in the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His suffering was his "one thing." Or that it hints at Romans 8:28, when we read that God causes all things to cooperate for the good of those who love Him…and that "good" is conformity to the image of Christ.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Are you encompassed by fears, surrounded by danger, ensnared by troubles? Are the waves much, much too high and threatening to drown you? Is your child far from the Lord? Your marriage imploding and taking the children with it? Mental illness rendering a precious someone unrecognizable? Caregiving or chronic illness wearing you so thin you feel you must rip apart? A dreadful diagnosis quenching your hope and confounding your doctors? The money running out with no clear replenishment in sight? Society turning its back on you and leaving you behind for reasons beyond your control? Healthcare desperately needed but beyond your reach? Your dearest loved one fading away like a rainbow in the sun?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">These are all real situations facing people I know right now. Or my own family. I do not say this glibly or intend to minimize the pain. Even into those real and great adversities, I must ask this.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">What is your one thing, beloved? What do you fear most and desire most? (The fear points toward the desire.)</span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you, like David, most desire communion with God and most fear losing the sunshine of His face, then seek His will and lean into the confidence that you will see His goodness, even here, even now. If you walk through suffering, it will be in fellowship with the suffering Christ; if you walk in resurrection joy and fruitfulness, it will be in the power of the risen Christ. His promises will never fail. He will never, never, never, never leave or forsake His children (Hebrews 13:5).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you recognize that is not your deepest desire and greatest fear, go to Him and ask. Tell Him what you desire more than His presence, confess your fears, and tell Him that you want to want Him more than anything or anyone, but you don't know how. He will hear and answer your cry without shame or condemnation. And He knows anyway.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">What is more, having given us Himself, would He ever refuse us the lesser gifts of wisdom to walk with Him, help against our foes, or any <i>good</i> thing in the land of the living? We can trust Him. We can place our confidence in Him. He is faithful.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Courage in the Lord</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the final short section (v. 14), David counsels his own heart to trust the Lord:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wait for the Lord;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Be strong and take heart [or courage]</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">And wait for the Lord.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Psalm 27:14 NIV</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">We can know that he is talking to himself here because in the Hebrew, the commands are singular: one "you," not "y'all." David is following the counsel D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones would later give of talking to himself more than he listens to himself.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">He is, after all, surrounded by enemies.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Even though his confidence, rescue, and light are in the Lord his God, it is a three o'clock in the morning in his soul, so he needs to keep reminding himself of what is true.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">He tells himself to wait for, hope in, or expect the Lord. God's promises are "yes and amen," not "maybe, we'll see." We can expect Him to do what He says He will do.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">He talks himself into strength and courage, which he can find because the Lord is his light, salvation, and fortress, leaving no reason to fear (verse 1). He can find strength of heart because he dwells with the God he loves and knows that God will not forsake him.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">And he repeats for emphasis that his soul should expect the Lord.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">As short as this section is, it offers an important reminder for our own souls' three o'clocks: wait. In overwhelming darkness and difficulty, we do very much need courage to wait. We need courage and strength to believe the sun will rise again and three o'clock will not last forever. We need patience to endure with the expectation that God is faithful and we will see His goodness even now, in the land of the living.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In those seasons, the presence of God is the light (maybe the only light) in our darkness. He is the strong, trustworthy person we need in the nightmares. For the Christian, the triune infinite-personal God dwells not only with us but in us, and we are in Him by grace through faith in Christ. The comfort, courage, strength, and peace we need are in our very hearts.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">He can sustain us and even give us joy and peace in the three o'clocks of our souls' dark nights.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Courage, dear hearts.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Closing prayer:</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Lord of peace and power,</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Who gave Abraham confidence to obey</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Even to the sacrifice of his son, his only son,</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Isaac, whom he loved;</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Who named Gideon a "mighty warrior"</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">When he was still hiding in the wine press threshing wheat;</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Who gave confidence to David the shepherd boy</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">To face the giant Goliath without sword or armor,</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Only a handful of stones, a sling, and You:</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">We come to You today</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Overwhelmed with the darkness and distress</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Of what Your providence has given us,</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Needing stores of courage we don't have</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">And light we can't see.</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Come to us quickly, Lord;</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Be the lantern in our dark nights</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">And the mighty champion who drives away our dread and despair;</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hold us close to Yourself and strengthen our hearts</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">With Your love and promises.</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Grant us audacious faith to live in confidence</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Of Your goodness in the land of the living,</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">For You are good and do good, today and in the life to come.</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">We ask this in the name of Jesus the true Light of true light,</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Very God of very God.</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Amen.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you are reading in your browser and would like to subscribe by email, click here:</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Inter, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-size: 14px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%; white-space: nowrap;">http://eepurl.com/hCJ9Z1</span></p> </div><div></div> tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-68433699211409819642024-01-21T01:00:00.016-06:002024-02-25T12:06:08.422-06:00Unimprisoned God<div dir="auto"><i><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/15Z4y8o0nanTdIJF_yprMdq1BpsHWrYS0/view?usp=drivesdk">Click here to listen to me pray this over you.</a></i></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfLh3NGr0FgpL7HpAgRHnXUpU-0EcmRaz2qTx36njekOhiIU11QBsmAWcDNfLc5BG9patmoqmQkKbegcXWbruioidKml2CWntFQsBezfFC4sdOGjbRFGZ-YZEwHnsrTX6Rxc6reRMMBhyphenhyphentOFdXPt9arWo8-YTZP5D5m2A9P-pZI6XTcXlTlDwp3XfzR20/s2200/DSC_0231.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2200" data-original-width="2200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfLh3NGr0FgpL7HpAgRHnXUpU-0EcmRaz2qTx36njekOhiIU11QBsmAWcDNfLc5BG9patmoqmQkKbegcXWbruioidKml2CWntFQsBezfFC4sdOGjbRFGZ-YZEwHnsrTX6Rxc6reRMMBhyphenhyphentOFdXPt9arWo8-YTZP5D5m2A9P-pZI6XTcXlTlDwp3XfzR20/w640-h640/DSC_0231.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruby-crowned kinglet on a snowy day</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">O Omnipresent God,</div><div dir="auto">Unhindered by any door, deadbolt, or lock:</div><div dir="auto">We who worship alone today</div><div dir="auto">Within the walls of our homes or rooms or curtained hospital beds or unsheltered in the open air</div><div dir="auto">Offer you our solitude as sacrifice of praise,</div><div dir="auto">In gratitude for the gritty faith of the many in the great cloud of witnesses</div><div dir="auto">Who themselves worshipped in prisons of stones or caves or holes in the ground,</div><div dir="auto">In exile and in illness;</div><div dir="auto">In solidarity with many today imprisoned by poor health or sin's consequences or the unjust decisions of the powerful— </div><div dir="auto">Some deprived of all contact with the world outside—</div><div dir="auto">Companion us in all our lonely lamentations; </div><div dir="auto">Shine Your light into our darkness to show the gold gleam of the most holy place of Your presence; </div><div dir="auto">Unite us in the spiritual communion of the saints, one body in Christ beyond time or space;</div><div dir="auto">Remind each one that no child of Yours is ever truly alone,</div><div dir="auto">for you are with us always in love and grace</div><div dir="auto">For the glory of Your holy name.</div><div dir="auto">Amen.</div><div></div> tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-8644771789641461612024-01-15T17:54:00.006-06:002024-01-15T17:57:45.717-06:00Ruler of Wind and Waves<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ_-1_WKHP-cYdz19AeWzFUu5terHIB2ZtVSXnWA8FSMQ5wnlUTfseyT4H70U_3YYro4vYvUNkDnxlH6lRxzBnBj6D5-vtUqP4ZUGaXWs7DLXoYEjdwYtI9FmZvorcyDf_OU2ILRrhTxikKb31ZcLDOUWxIeJ15iK22H8PgMe0NoFklWwRJ7yGEIstCbE/s4096/54C00E15-F831-4910-98DC-43CB00CD36DD.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3276" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ_-1_WKHP-cYdz19AeWzFUu5terHIB2ZtVSXnWA8FSMQ5wnlUTfseyT4H70U_3YYro4vYvUNkDnxlH6lRxzBnBj6D5-vtUqP4ZUGaXWs7DLXoYEjdwYtI9FmZvorcyDf_OU2ILRrhTxikKb31ZcLDOUWxIeJ15iK22H8PgMe0NoFklWwRJ7yGEIstCbE/w512-h640/54C00E15-F831-4910-98DC-43CB00CD36DD.jpg" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amaryllis bud in front of bokeh Christmas lights</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div dir="auto"><i><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AZ8jq049ri4tQ1cKTSydKV9x5dB9mYHV/view?usp=drivesdk">Click here to listen to me pray this over you.</a></i></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Eternal, omnipotent God, </div><div dir="auto">Ruler of wind and waves,</div><div dir="auto">Who raised a storm against your wayward prophet</div><div dir="auto">And spoke hush to the waves swamping the disciples' boat,</div><div dir="auto">Who sent a great fish to swallow the one and called many fish into the nets of the others:</div><div dir="auto">Speak peace to the troubled hearts of Your children;</div><div dir="auto">Where we are wayward, use the storms to drive us back to You;</div><div dir="auto">Where we are worried (and, Lord, we are worried), speak Your peace that passes understanding into our hearts, souls, minds, and bodies;</div><div dir="auto">Only You are strong enough to carry all the weight of all our worries;</div><div dir="auto">Only You are loving enough to want to.</div><div dir="auto">Provide everything needed, from discipline to daily bread;</div><div dir="auto">Have mercy on our frailties and sins;</div><div dir="auto">Heal our sorrows and sicknesses;</div><div dir="auto">Grant us rest in the Almighty Love come down at Christmas and abiding always,</div><div dir="auto">in Jesus' name, Amen.</div></div> tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-27423140818863811452024-01-02T15:28:00.003-06:002024-01-02T15:28:55.484-06:00A Prayer for the Threshold of the Year<p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1alr2mdob54KcWpzUsAY8gP51QmkS1lg0/view?usp=drivesdk" target="_blank"><i>Listen to me pray this over you.</i><br /><br /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9y68onzle9mZg4hbqz2ZcLvyeFni4r7Yht70jU_CV4-EMfbticxRutGol6zL6VkG3f8hAccE3pF6Gbxhpku6DP4K9YawJNLIiVbVK2xqLJ_1C_-DPNmVvt-aJy3Wxbxr3rExvMds7_Db-2JlHP2o-e16dSwNxotA9eoFKBYdqloxhJkr4FUmh4Q4uI30/s6000/DSC_0949.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9y68onzle9mZg4hbqz2ZcLvyeFni4r7Yht70jU_CV4-EMfbticxRutGol6zL6VkG3f8hAccE3pF6Gbxhpku6DP4K9YawJNLIiVbVK2xqLJ_1C_-DPNmVvt-aJy3Wxbxr3rExvMds7_Db-2JlHP2o-e16dSwNxotA9eoFKBYdqloxhJkr4FUmh4Q4uI30/w640-h426/DSC_0949.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJtusLB4NSfT3fIVncsQHIZkrZIJVdteK2yv6KZElZel8uEfObxMmpgA_SSmTeY4-eUGlvoZVl3EpUQaxK5OhtiSq1TU1vGaA_nGYPAcloEQ7q57D7KpOxqSz3HwsjdUEetBHHr8o9-swpa7PybJw2gR2ip8gdgqrmkgcF3zBBVDmqBMNcs_fqlpfPc4/s6000/DSC_0947.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJtusLB4NSfT3fIVncsQHIZkrZIJVdteK2yv6KZElZel8uEfObxMmpgA_SSmTeY4-eUGlvoZVl3EpUQaxK5OhtiSq1TU1vGaA_nGYPAcloEQ7q57D7KpOxqSz3HwsjdUEetBHHr8o9-swpa7PybJw2gR2ip8gdgqrmkgcF3zBBVDmqBMNcs_fqlpfPc4/w640-h426/DSC_0947.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF2uHNEtRBxzp2GVp1fa4qNzBvbuBJ1sZN1JHU8Roe2Qez92iQqwjSPDVON3FC-O1VYnYYqiHPoYE1e_ct4Glv6aNOZwZ8TsFE1P1q53jCSFMW_FK2uxy8Dqpna9pBxZqduuTaSIm_o3RtqPu-6A4t2FZ8JHaQt7yhlxEBZ0ZHCdKRtWXNT_TQ3oEGaAs/s6000/DSC_0943.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF2uHNEtRBxzp2GVp1fa4qNzBvbuBJ1sZN1JHU8Roe2Qez92iQqwjSPDVON3FC-O1VYnYYqiHPoYE1e_ct4Glv6aNOZwZ8TsFE1P1q53jCSFMW_FK2uxy8Dqpna9pBxZqduuTaSIm_o3RtqPu-6A4t2FZ8JHaQt7yhlxEBZ0ZHCdKRtWXNT_TQ3oEGaAs/w640-h426/DSC_0943.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_L-DR3TQBIESY9cdc-mbJzYSfIdhWiOcgnfyYkxVLq6UjKReJAyFqHRx5NcznQWBjue2oyM4m_RqBMS9c9xKNpzXzv7-aJsGMYfoNfnRuD7wFxHoPFNgm8vznVz1weFbzl-NQt3xzaZ1RXvCDcsEqayrA7kWLnpbjLqz3QlnKNEepuvSq1hbw2sGIaRE/s6000/DSC_0942.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6000" data-original-width="4000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_L-DR3TQBIESY9cdc-mbJzYSfIdhWiOcgnfyYkxVLq6UjKReJAyFqHRx5NcznQWBjue2oyM4m_RqBMS9c9xKNpzXzv7-aJsGMYfoNfnRuD7wFxHoPFNgm8vznVz1weFbzl-NQt3xzaZ1RXvCDcsEqayrA7kWLnpbjLqz3QlnKNEepuvSq1hbw2sGIaRE/w426-h640/DSC_0942.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXL0437pfjGpRLMrTOtePHVrwuRo7cL7Fo7koIxKLQxPCXrvr1GaV7zVG1C1ap6pv52JxZWkSjXm979Ixw8isDvTN-UsBuvTkJJe5kUM9ZXK46K-LBFuSmVuHpDwPXNQLvBOhlSWEGbVa45Qonl1euKyQ-uMYmrzzBrM2AoHHZLTFOUzLeSGuJNKBtiH4/s6000/DSC_0938.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXL0437pfjGpRLMrTOtePHVrwuRo7cL7Fo7koIxKLQxPCXrvr1GaV7zVG1C1ap6pv52JxZWkSjXm979Ixw8isDvTN-UsBuvTkJJe5kUM9ZXK46K-LBFuSmVuHpDwPXNQLvBOhlSWEGbVa45Qonl1euKyQ-uMYmrzzBrM2AoHHZLTFOUzLeSGuJNKBtiH4/w640-h426/DSC_0938.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Eternal God,</p><p>Thank you for the blessings Your hand has provided us this year.</p><p>We bring you the challenges You have carried us through,</p><p>The wounds and disappointments we need You to heal,</p><p>The ones that may never heal this side of Heaven,</p><p>The lessons You’ve taught us,</p><p>The lessons we’ve still failed to learn,</p><p>The accomplishments You have worked for us.</p><p>All of them we offer You as material for sacrifice.</p><p>In all these things Your hand has been working, whether we knew it or not.</p><p>In all these things Your love has been working, whether we knew it or not.</p><p>You are the alpha and omega,</p><p>Beginning and end,</p><p>Author and finisher of our faith.</p><p>You have carried us through all this year,</p><p>And you already await us in the new one.</p><p>You have never forsaken us and will not forsake us now.</p><p>Grant us grace and strength for today</p><p>And tomorrow</p><p>And all the tomorrows remaining to us until we see Your face in death or the soon return of Christ.</p><p>May Your love be our rest,</p><p>Your power our security,</p><p>Your communion our hope.</p><p>In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,</p><p>Amen.</p><p>31 December 2023</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1546" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD5yqyUNuC4P9AF4hHPuz5XlD1cYR-yG-hYaQq997F4CQkYdF4sE8x6ISOs4HVs0UCVCUbyFILEIaBgA-kQy0BGbUbMxA9lohgpPOjOFEsD1gT9A6IzzU755WOQCRUOPucWQfYVQuLyL5XFcy9S8uPAauxWwZsMNwxlyQbLHA8D-51yrMPf54msY8O1R4/w494-h640/9F03567E-10FB-4CAE-A741-14107D22A3F8.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="494" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A printable you may download, print, or share for personal use</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://eepurl.com/hCJ9Z1" target="_blank">To subscribe by email, click here. 💙</a></p>tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-67487661677839570392023-12-24T19:10:00.004-06:002024-02-25T12:06:30.258-06:00A Christmas prayer for the sick<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ1Whug9i89K51qScL6YruTPQfuDafEYx1L3qxbV6gVTziKd1DkgNaWJRiYQmqFRISrd0F_rl2EpZkY3-kBe8Tmg85qtaQpAqNusqrFHRQP-3rbLIBP3Yq6w8MwFL5g3iMrEl1GeIMKGHciOoYa7MY4efWk5FOkLoF013-TduPicUwYNbSe3r-FZhNc5k/s1920/Golden%20Minimalist%20Christmas%20Decorations%20Instagram%20Story.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ1Whug9i89K51qScL6YruTPQfuDafEYx1L3qxbV6gVTziKd1DkgNaWJRiYQmqFRISrd0F_rl2EpZkY3-kBe8Tmg85qtaQpAqNusqrFHRQP-3rbLIBP3Yq6w8MwFL5g3iMrEl1GeIMKGHciOoYa7MY4efWk5FOkLoF013-TduPicUwYNbSe3r-FZhNc5k/w360-h640/Golden%20Minimalist%20Christmas%20Decorations%20Instagram%20Story.png" width="360" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto"><i><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mBy7RZC-fSkUpv6DVaaLwVefnkWXGMvW/view?usp=drivesdk" target="_blank">To listen to me read this prayer, click here.</a></i></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">O God our healer,</div><div dir="auto">Who sweetened Mara's bitter waters with wood:</div><div dir="auto">Sweeten the bitterness and loneliness of illness with the cross of Christ;</div><div dir="auto">Console the ill with the fellowship of His sufferings and the Holy Spirit's comfort;</div><div dir="auto">Show forth the sufficiency of Your grace and fullness of Your power;</div><div dir="auto">Remind Your people to love, encourage, and pray for them;</div><div dir="auto">Heal the grief of missing out, especially on days of celebration;</div><div dir="auto">Forgive those who have added sorrow by their words and actions, intentional and accidental;</div><div dir="auto">Transform sickrooms and hospital beds into sanctuaries through Your presence;</div><div dir="auto">That the sick and their families may endure these afflictions as seeing You who are invisible,</div><div dir="auto">And rest in Your promises that these sufferings are, even now, working for them an overwhelming, eternal, incomparable weight of glory;</div><div dir="auto">In the name of Jesus,</div><div dir="auto">the Man of sorrows who bore our sickness and pain as well as our sin,</div><div dir="auto">Amen.</div></div> tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-62360423971703712912023-12-24T19:09:00.002-06:002023-12-24T19:11:03.591-06:00A Christmas Prayer for Those Who Feel Invisible<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhLPKaRwI2HA2T3p9NqS0vRaeYvZVLeoo8ivogrI2oDR-8R3f_abUNoMpKHVlVnrYzFoOjYs25bqapchlO5CK4PLituj4OhgSYT6LMNRh_mYnHupOSAjEmtVkOjx-zKu_EgMtwNTYWxEVQOjSUE8j-ZcyHvI9lNjcP455n_LvqwgBcD_bX7Vu4sEpa8GA/s1920/Brown%20and%20Beige%20Minimal%20Elegant%20Christmas%20Invitation%20Instagram%20Story.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhLPKaRwI2HA2T3p9NqS0vRaeYvZVLeoo8ivogrI2oDR-8R3f_abUNoMpKHVlVnrYzFoOjYs25bqapchlO5CK4PLituj4OhgSYT6LMNRh_mYnHupOSAjEmtVkOjx-zKu_EgMtwNTYWxEVQOjSUE8j-ZcyHvI9lNjcP455n_LvqwgBcD_bX7Vu4sEpa8GA/w360-h640/Brown%20and%20Beige%20Minimal%20Elegant%20Christmas%20Invitation%20Instagram%20Story.png" width="360" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto"><i><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Uwnki5fSXCjtIVV8Ay1jng5YsdXX5cT_/view?usp=drivesdk" target="_blank">To listen to me read this post, click here.</a></i></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">O Sovereign King,</div><div dir="auto">You who see the unseen and forgotten people,</div><div dir="auto">Who sent Your royal angelic herald</div><div dir="auto">To the unclean, uncouth shepherds,</div><div dir="auto">The offscourings of society,</div><div dir="auto">Distant from the rites of public worship,</div><div dir="auto">But not from Your gaze:</div><div dir="auto">Proclaim Your good news of great joy</div><div dir="auto">To the invisible souls on the margins of church and culture now;</div><div dir="auto">Invade our darkness with Your light,</div><div dir="auto">Our fear with Your joy,</div><div dir="auto">Our alienation with Your presence,</div><div dir="auto">Our anonymity with Your attentive delight,</div><div dir="auto">That we also might sound forth Your praises</div><div dir="auto">And herald the glories You proclaim to us,</div><div dir="auto">So that all glory and worship might resound</div><div dir="auto">To Jesus the Savior,</div><div dir="auto">Virgin-born yet God-enfleshed.</div><div dir="auto">Holy and gracious is He.</div><div dir="auto">Blessed be His name.</div><div dir="auto">Amen.</div><div></div> tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-8618588327391726162023-12-24T19:07:00.004-06:002023-12-24T19:07:45.501-06:00A Christmas Prayer for the Broken Hearts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1K6W4hyphenhypheneXmpQ7P2QLuh6qBZUEB-lVhQYK0fjobBnxdEDMSPZKDibR4QeCqYUMewv2i1BfW_9ofU7d_JuVDziqiBxU5irc54xKtEA3vx3hKSwOr6ikGDVpAFceDnCiqNZFWTqVno5uZ9LD2jicMOEpJnQusbquzKbihkARouktimcFgmnriUS7sOy7OZ0/s1080/Green%20White%20Simple%20Merry%20Christmas%20Instagram%20Post%20(Square).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1K6W4hyphenhypheneXmpQ7P2QLuh6qBZUEB-lVhQYK0fjobBnxdEDMSPZKDibR4QeCqYUMewv2i1BfW_9ofU7d_JuVDziqiBxU5irc54xKtEA3vx3hKSwOr6ikGDVpAFceDnCiqNZFWTqVno5uZ9LD2jicMOEpJnQusbquzKbihkARouktimcFgmnriUS7sOy7OZ0/w640-h640/Green%20White%20Simple%20Merry%20Christmas%20Instagram%20Post%20(Square).png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto"><i><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fovEVwWQB_NNPMIUhf20Zjf3Y3ZPetal/view?usp=drivesdk" target="_blank">To listen to me read this prayer, click here.</a></i></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Most merciful Father,</div><div dir="auto">who draws near to the brokenhearted</div><div dir="auto">and bandages their wounds:</div><div dir="auto">Who but You can heal a broken heart?</div><div dir="auto">Comfort Your bruised and battered children;</div><div dir="auto">Minister to their wounds </div><div dir="auto">with the intimate companionship of Emmanuel,</div><div dir="auto">God with us,</div><div dir="auto">so that they might discover treasures</div><div dir="auto">in the darkness of their heartache</div><div dir="auto">which they could not have seen</div><div dir="auto">in the sunshine of happier days.</div><div dir="auto">Light of light, our Rescuer and Healer,</div><div dir="auto">in You we ask this.</div><div dir="auto">Amen.</div> tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-72794111443861886932023-11-27T17:35:00.001-06:002023-11-28T11:22:50.038-06:00Psalm 27 and the Loneliness of Three in the Morning<figure >
<figcaption>Listen to me read the audio file</figcaption>
<audio controls
src="https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1EB52L1IIj5vRxVBq3zzIfU8BEc1IkeZP&export=download" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
</figure>
<style>figure {margin: 0;} </style>
<b><br /><br />Hear my voice when I call, Lord; <br />be merciful to me and answer me. <br />My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” <br />Your face, Lord, I will seek. <br />Do not hide your face from me, <br />do not turn your servant away in anger; <br />you have been my helper. <br />Do not reject me or forsake me, <br />God my Savior.<br />Though my father and mother forsake me, <br />the Lord will receive me.<br /><br />Psalm 27:7-10 NIV</b><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS3b_lsF0kaxyPEdali759tsbRsjaaonptaAMkovh-2uAQOqRLDbTC1xu_AhqCqbXU5rq6nTQShz2EggabOk-MKuGdb_lZnQZk2bCDjyNmlbm14HVdTh6CMFqOalHotZMQdNtXC38ZcU6M2Z4rggi69ygP5Ub0Ja6SST6HjoQ1x7VJHMiRfQrjnViKN48/s6000/DSC_0848.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Waning, slightly gibbous moon in bright blue sky: it hangs like a bowl tipped at an angle, pouring out blue on the autumn morning." border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS3b_lsF0kaxyPEdali759tsbRsjaaonptaAMkovh-2uAQOqRLDbTC1xu_AhqCqbXU5rq6nTQShz2EggabOk-MKuGdb_lZnQZk2bCDjyNmlbm14HVdTh6CMFqOalHotZMQdNtXC38ZcU6M2Z4rggi69ygP5Ub0Ja6SST6HjoQ1x7VJHMiRfQrjnViKN48/w640-h426/DSC_0848.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Loneliness—<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Since Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, it has haunted humanity. That sin separated us from God, each other, and even in a sense from ourselves. Loneliness so stalks our lives that it can find us in a crowd or at home alone. It can find us in the arms of our best beloved and cradling our firstborn children. It finds the single and the married. It finds us at work and at leisure. It finds us in youth and old age. It is a universal form of suffering. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bereavement is lonely; really any sort of emotional or physical pain is.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Chronic illness is lonely: no other person truly knows the experience of it, and it frequently removes us from our family and friends. Especially now, when opportunities for online discipleship, fellowship, worship, work, and study are being scaled back or discontinued, many medically vulnerable people are feeling left behind and lonely. Alienated. Exiles. Chronic and prolonged illness even alienates us from ourselves in the way it severs us from the “before” self so different from the one in the mirror and lying in the bed. There is a particular loneliness for the me I used to be, the me I still am sometimes in my dreams; it is a wistful ache, but the only way out of it is to forget the “before” self altogether. That would be poor comfort indeed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In addition, loneliness often marks vocational ministry and missions. The leadership position can pose challenges to vulnerable, close relationships with the very people and church being cared for. Sometimes fellowship is found with other leaders or lay Christians outside the church congregation; sometimes the leader is physically present and immersed in the ministry community but emotionally distant for self-protection.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Those are only a few examples; really, loneliness is an equal-opportunity affliction. It can strike any sort of person at any time of life and any hour of the day. Loneliness can find us at high noon or at five on Friday afternoon, but I suggest that three in the morning is the loneliest hour of the day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Setting</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is the fourth essay in our series reflecting on Psalm 27. In this Psalm, God through David has given us a prayer-song for when we are afraid of the dark: whatever kind of dark, literal darkness or emotional and spiritual darkness. David seeks shelter in God’s personal presence with confidence borne out of His past rescues, and so can we.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.crumbsfromhistable.com/2023/10/psalm-27-prayer-for-three-oclock-in.html" target="_blank">In the first post, we consider the themes and structure of the prayer as a whole</a>. <a href="https://www.crumbsfromhistable.com/2023/10/psalm-27-prayer-for-our-souls-three.html" target="_blank">In the second post, we reflect on the first section of three verses</a>. In <a name="_Int_za1W6LjK">it</a> David describes his experience of God’s saving defense. In <a href="https://www.crumbsfromhistable.com/2023/11/psalm-27-prayer-for-three-oclock-in.html" target="_blank">the third post we consider the second section (vv. 4-6)</a>, in which David expresses his expectant desire for God’s sheltering presence, his “one thing”: to dwell with and behold his God.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Since communion with God was David’s “one thing,” the loss of fellowship with Him is David’s greatest fear, even more than family tragedy or military defeat. In the third section we’re examining today (7-10), David takes his fear (or experience) of rejection to the Lord and pleads for God’s continued presence. The very deepest sort of loneliness, I believe, is our existential loneliness for the God who made and sustains us. A deep cavern of loneliness in our inmost being is so shaped that only the Triune God can fill it. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Search<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Here the psalm takes a turn from talking </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">about</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> God (third person, for the English majors out there) to talking </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">to</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> God directly (second person); he changes from “he” language to “you” language. We might also notice that pleading, vulnerable prayer requests pour out in a rush of words and intense emotion:</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Hear me</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Be merciful to me</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Answer me</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Don’t hide Your face from me</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Don’t push me away</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Don’t reject me</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Don’t forsake me</span></li></ul><!--[if !supportLists]--><p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Psychologist and author Dr. Curt Thompson has said in his books and podcasts that “we are all born looking for someone looking for us” and that there is a universal human need to be “seen, soothed, safe, and secure.” Those are the desires and needs I see David taking to God in these verses. “I’m seeking Your face, Lord; will You meet my gaze? Are you looking back at me? Please don’t turn away.” David looks back at God’s past help and begs Him not to reject him now. The tone struck by the urgent pleas brings to my mind a child clinging to a beloved parent’s leg in separation anxiety, or a wife begging her husband to stay (or vice versa). David is searching for God, and his greatest fear seems to be that God will not let Himself be found in the moment of deepest need.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Scripture, the face of God often symbolizes the favor of God. In the battles and attacks David is suffering while writing this Psalm (see the earlier verses and posts), what he mosts desires is God’s favor, represented in God’s face turned toward him and not hidden from him.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Solace</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">After pouring all this out before the Lord, David remembers. He remembers God’s faithful help and says, to God and himself, that—even if the people most bound by love and duty to care for him should reject and abandon him—the Lord will always receive him.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">We all fail the people we love most. Whether through intentional sin, personality and value differences, or simply the limitations of being human, we all fall short of satisfying our closest dear ones’ innermost needs. Finite humanity cannot fill a God-shaped void. David, the author of this Psalm, experienced murderous rage from his king and mentor, betrayal by servants and sons, and the involuntary “abandonment” of bereavement. In 1 Samuel 30, we read how even his own warriors turned against him and talked of stoning him. Despite all that, David declares his confidence in God’s glad welcome, even if every other person should turn away and turn against him.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">As Charles Spurgeon reminded us</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">“‘But I am so lonely in the world,’ says another, ‘no man cares for me.’ There is one man at any rate who does so care; a true man like yourself. He is your brother still, and does not forget the lonely spirit" (Charles H. Spurgeon, <i>Joy to the World</i>). The Triune God is always with us and dwells in believers, not through any merit of our own, but because of the life and work of Christ. He has not left us as orphans (John 14:18). He never, never, never leaves or forsakes His people (Hebrews 13:5).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">So What? Application<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">How are we to respond to these things?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pray</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">. Make these words your own. Pray them aloud or in your heart. Use them to turn the gaze of your heart back toward the Lord.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Seek God’s face.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> He is looking for you. Will you meet His eyes? “Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always” (Psalms </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">105:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">4 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">NIV). The people we love and earthly things we look to for our identity will always disappoint us eventually. Only the Lord can fully satisfy the lonely places of our hearts. Only our identity as the Lord’s children will never be stripped from us.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Trust His readiness to be found.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> "Jesus willingly looked at the back of God’s head so that we would never look at anything but his face. So, today, when you envision God with the eyes of your heart, envision his face, because if you are his child it is the only thing you are ever going to see" (Paul David Tripp, <i>A Shelter in the Time of Storm</i>).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lean on His faithfulness.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> When people abandon you and betray you or simply let you down because of human limitations and not moral fault, take the loneliness, rejection, and disappointment to the Lord. Offer them to Him, and yourself with them. Jesus was forsaken by the Father on the cross so that His children never would be. When God seems hidden from us, we can take Him at His word as David does here. We can confess with our mouths even if we don’t feel it emotionally: “the Lord will receive me.” This is how we encourage ourselves in the Lord: we keep telling ourselves the truth, building new default mental patterns according to truth, until the day eventually comes when we feel the reality of it again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Loneliness can be such a dark emotion. It can certainly contribute to our souls’ white nights. Thanks be to God that Christian believers are not without solace in our loneliness. Even if Jesus doesn’t take away the loneliness altogether, He will come into it with us. Even if He doesn’t immediately turn on the lights to dispel our emotional or spiritual darkness, He will hold our hands through the dark night of the soul (and always).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Christ’s heart for us means that he will be our never-failing friend no matter what friends we do or do not enjoy on earth. He offers us a friendship that gets underneath the pain of our loneliness. While that pain does not go away, its sting is made fully bearable by the far deeper friendship of Jesus. He walks with us through every moment. He knows the pain of being betrayed by a friend, but he will never betray us. He will not even so much as coolly welcome us. That is not who he is. That is not his heart (Dane Ortlund, <i>Gentle and Lowly).</i></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i></i></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please pray with me, using the words of missionary Amy Carmichael:</span></p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Lover Divine, whose love has sought and found me,<br /> Thou dost not leave me when the night is round me;<br />Cause me to be, held fast by Love eternal,<br />More than a conqueror. </blockquote><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </blockquote><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Open mine eyes to see the stars above me,<br />Quicken my heart that I may feel Thee love me,<br />Make me, and keep me through Thy love eternal,<br />More than a conqueror. </blockquote><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </blockquote><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">What storm can shatter, gloom of darkness frighten<br />One whom the Lord doth shelter, cherish, lighten?<br />O let me be, through powers of love eternal,<br />More than a conqueror (<i>Rose from Brier</i>, 138).</blockquote><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I ask this. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
<!--
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{mso-style-unhide:no;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
margin:0in;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:1.0pt;
mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;
mso-bidi-language:HE;}
p.MsoListParagraph, li.MsoListParagraph, div.MsoListParagraph
{mso-style-priority:34;
mso-style-unhide:no;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
margin-top:0in;
margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;
mso-add-space:auto;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:1.0pt;
mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;
mso-bidi-language:HE;}
p.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst
{mso-style-priority:34;
mso-style-unhide:no;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-type:export-only;
margin-top:0in;
margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;
mso-add-space:auto;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:1.0pt;
mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;
mso-bidi-language:HE;}
p.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle
{mso-style-priority:34;
mso-style-unhide:no;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-type:export-only;
margin-top:0in;
margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;
mso-add-space:auto;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:1.0pt;
mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;
mso-bidi-language:HE;}
p.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast
{mso-style-priority:34;
mso-style-unhide:no;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-type:export-only;
margin-top:0in;
margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;
mso-add-space:auto;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-font-kerning:1.0pt;
mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;
mso-bidi-language:HE;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
mso-default-props:yes;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-bidi-language:HE;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;
mso-header-margin:.5in;
mso-footer-margin:.5in;
mso-paper-source:0;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
/* List Definitions */
@list l0
{mso-list-id:1649245657;
mso-list-type:hybrid;
mso-list-template-ids:-2025685446 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693;}
@list l0:level1
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:;
mso-level-tab-stop:none;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level2
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:o;
mso-level-tab-stop:none;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
font-family:"Courier New";}
@list l0:level3
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:;
mso-level-tab-stop:none;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
font-family:Wingdings;}
@list l0:level4
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:;
mso-level-tab-stop:none;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level5
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:o;
mso-level-tab-stop:none;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
font-family:"Courier New";}
@list l0:level6
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:;
mso-level-tab-stop:none;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
font-family:Wingdings;}
@list l0:level7
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:;
mso-level-tab-stop:none;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level8
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:o;
mso-level-tab-stop:none;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
font-family:"Courier New";}
@list l0:level9
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:;
mso-level-tab-stop:none;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
font-family:Wingdings;}
-->
</style>tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-81030917639857975702023-11-07T10:08:00.002-06:002023-11-28T11:23:29.511-06:00Psalm 27 and the "One Thing" We Need at Three in the Morning<figure>
<figcaption>Listen to me read the audio file</figcaption>
<audio controls="" src="https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1MQeXh6sG-7E8gDrc9dZ3IlElr98lUg2Z&export=download" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
</figure>
<style>figure {margin: 0;} </style>
<p><br /></p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="https://www.crumbsfromhistable.com/2023/11/psalm-27-prayer-for-three-oclock-in.html" target="_blank">Click here to listen in Web browser.</a></i></span><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span><b>One thing I ask from the Lord,</b><br /><b>this only do I seek:</b><br /><b>that I may dwell in the house of the Lord</b><br /><b>all the days of my life,</b><br /><b>to gaze on the beauty of the Lord</b><br /><b>and to seek him in his temple.</b><br /><b>For in the day of trouble</b><br /><b>he will keep me safe in his dwelling;</b><br /><b> he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent</b><br /><b>and set me high upon a rock.</b><br /><b>Then my head will be exalted</b><br /><b>above the enemies who surround me;</b><br /><b>at his sacred tent I will sacrifice with shouts of joy;</b><br /><b>I will sing and make music to the Lord.</b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Psalm 27:4-6, NIV<br /><br /><br />
</b><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJDlhC5UBI5Z8F149FMQbZS_zbc-iLyQbyOkBWMvrM0MMSCm58CXt1icNSh31QYNfSHbQ4YJ0syxR58WQaEkQkxXfLLJ6e0GiSejK6CVFfyxGqClyGYzpZiVHyIYQNbWILIFkms0D0-LxH8OSv0v6lyyu9XSMea5fB9DexrqOSFp_YGWRcS7UVFJYAdao/s4032/IMG_7593.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJDlhC5UBI5Z8F149FMQbZS_zbc-iLyQbyOkBWMvrM0MMSCm58CXt1icNSh31QYNfSHbQ4YJ0syxR58WQaEkQkxXfLLJ6e0GiSejK6CVFfyxGqClyGYzpZiVHyIYQNbWILIFkms0D0-LxH8OSv0v6lyyu9XSMea5fB9DexrqOSFp_YGWRcS7UVFJYAdao/w480-h640/IMG_7593.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our dawn sky today</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">What is your “one thing?” If the Lord told you, as He did
Solomon, that he would give you any one thing you asked, what one thing would
you seek? Health, family, financial security? Success, influence, popularity?
Wisdom, advanced degrees, expertise? Marriage, children, reconciliation,
forgiveness?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Psalm 27:4 and elsewhere, David—the man after God’s own
heart—says that his “one thing” is to dwell with God, to behold Him face to
face.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">This is the third essay in our series reflecting on Psalm
27. In this psalm, God through David has given us a prayer-song for when we are
afraid of the dark: whatever kind of dark, literal darkness or emotional and
spiritual darkness. David seeks shelter in God’s personal presence with
confidence borne out of His past rescues, and so can we. <a href="https://www.crumbsfromhistable.com/2023/10/psalm-27-prayer-for-three-oclock-in.html" target="_blank">In the first post, we considered the themes and structure of the prayer as a whole. </a><a href="https://www.crumbsfromhistable.com/2023/10/psalm-27-prayer-for-our-souls-three.html" target="_blank">In the second
post, we reflected on the first section of three verses. In that first section
(27:1-3), David describes his experience of God’s saving defense.</a> In this post
we are looking at the second section (vv. 4-6), in which David expresses his
expectant desire for God’s sheltering presence.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">In David’s time, the tabernacle had already passed into cultural
memory. Only the ark of the covenant, which was the gold-covered chest holding the tablets of the law God gave to Moses, remained. It had been captured by the
Philistines before David’s time but was returned in David's lifetime to Jerusalem, God’s chosen city
for the Hebrews to worship Him. It was housed in a tent, but not the beautiful, God-designed tent of meeting
from Moses’ time. The temple, however, had not yet been built. David lived between the tabernacle of the past and the temple yet to come.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">David desperately wanted to build a glorious house for the ark
representing God’s presence; it would be the one designated place for ritual sacrifices
to occur. When he told his desire, however, the Lord told him that
David was not to build Him a house, but instead, God would build David a house.
A dynastic house. And David’s son Solomon would in fact be the one to build a
house for the worship of Yahweh, the God of Israel. We call this promise the
Davidic covenant; in it, God promised that David’s descendants would be the
rightful rulers of Israel. (This conversation can be read in 2 Samuel 7.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Since David could not do what he wanted, he did what he
could. He dedicated the spoils of his battles to the splendor of the temple to
come. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moreover, David told Solomon in 1
Chronicles 28:19 that the plans he was giving his son had been revealed to
David by God Himself. To some extent, in some spiritual sense, David glimpsed what
the temple would be, though it was not build during his lifetime. He even wrote
a prayer-song for its dedication, as the epigraph of Psalm 30 notes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">In the above verses from Psalm 27, David freely uses a
variety of terms for God’s dwelling: house of the Lord, temple, dwelling,
shelter, and sacred tent (or tabernacle). The common connection among them all
is the God who dwells there. More than anything in the world—and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David had wealth, power, influence, celebrity,
and success—David wanted to dwell with God. In God’s presence, he finds beauty,
shelter, victory, worship, and joy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>With Him, every wilderness was a castle, a paradise;
without Him, every castle was a wilderness.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The New Testament reveals that Jesus is the true tabernacle
and temple (John 1:14; 4:21-24; Hebrews 8:1-2, 5; 9:8, 11, 21, 23-28; 10:19-25).
Jesus is for all time the presence of God in human flesh. He is the dwelling
place of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Revelation indicates that all the tabernacles and temples
of the past pointed forward to the new creation on the way to us, when the
dwelling of God will be with men in the fullest possible way: “And I heard a loud
voice from the throne, saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and
He shall dwell [tabernacle] among them, and they shall be His people, and God
Himself shall be among them, and He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes,;
and there shall no longer be any death; there shall no longer be any mourning,
or crying, or pain; the first things have passe away’” (Revelation 21:3-4, NASB1995).
In that age there will be no more temple, “for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the
Lamb, are its temple” (Rev. 21:22, NASB 1995).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Do you remember from the first essay in this series that I
said, when I am afraid of the dark, when I am in a three-o’clock season of the
soul, the two things I want most are a light and a person. Last time we focused
on the light God gives. This time David points our attention back to a person,
the person of the Triune God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">David’s “one thing” to dwell in God’s presence and gaze on
His loveliness is the birthright of all who have been born again into God’s
family by grace through faith. John’s gospel, in particular, emphasizes that
the believer dwells or abides in God, and God abides in Him. We who believe in
Jesus are never separated from God’s presence. He is nearer than our next
breath. He is intimately acquainted with all our ways. He never leaves us alone
in the darkness, and the darkness is not even dark to Him (Psalm 139).</span></p>He is not repelled by our sorrow, brokenness, and sin. No matter what we are going through right now, we are never “too much” for the Lord Jesus. In fact, the Puritan preacher Samuel Rutherford wrote from his imprisonment for the gospel, “There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him” (<i>The Loveliness of Christ</i>, Kindle location 130). The young Scottish pastor Robert Murray M’Cheyne advised, “Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely. Such infinite majesty, and yet such meekness and grace, and all for sinners, even the chief! Live much in the smiles of God. Bask in his beams” (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Murray-MCheyne-1-Mar-1966-Hardcover/dp/B013J97A6A"><i>Memoir and Remains of Robert Murray M’Cheyne</i></a>, 293). <br /><br />
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">His love enlightens our darkness. His presence comforts our
loneliness. Should we lose all lesser “one things” as Job did, should we even
lose our earthly lives, we have enough and more in Christ Jesus. Any other
thing we place on the throne of our lives will eventually disappoint, but Jesus
never will. His love is better than health, wealth, power, or fame. His
presence is better than family, earthly friendship, marriage, or children. “His
love hath neither brim nor bottom. Go where ye will, your soul shall not sleep
sound but in Christ’s bosom. I find that our wants qualify us for Christ”
(Samuel Rutherford, <i>The Loveliness of Christ</i>, Kindle location 177).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Even when we feel our lives have hit rock-bottom, we have not found the bottom of His mercies, grace, love, and kindness. His love is deeper than our deepest needs and wounds. His love is stronger than whatever holds us in bondage. His love is greater than all we lack or lose.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Is this finding you in a season of darkness, beloved? Take
your wants and your wounds to Jesus. Let His smile shine into your darkness.
Lean into His presence by faith, if you cannot by feeling. If you can’t say with
David that the Lord is your one thing, let’s ask together that it may be so.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Please pray with me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Grant, most sweet and loving Jesus, that I may seek my
repose in You above every creature; above all health and beauty; above every
honor and glory; every power and dignity; above all knowledge and cleverness,
all riches and arts, all joy and gladness; above all things visible and
invisible; and may I seek my repose in You above everything that is not You, my
God. You alone are most beautiful and loving, You alone are most noble and
glorious above all things. In You is every perfection that has been or ever
will be. Therefore, whatever You give me besides Yourself, whatever You reveal
to me concerning Yourself, and whatever You promise, is too small and
insufficient if I do not see and fully enjoy You alone. For my heart cannot
rest or be fully content until, rising above all gifts and every created thing,
it rests in You” (Thomas à Kempis, <i>The Imitation of Christ</i>).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">I ask these things in the name of Christ Jesus our light
and our love. Amen.</span></p></div></div>tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-62625215383182767202023-10-31T16:53:00.002-05:002023-11-28T11:24:27.104-06:00Psalm 27 and Saving Light in Our Souls' Dark Nights<figure>
<figcaption>Listen to me read this post</figcaption>
<audio controls="" src="https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1KH_4KiKw6fNxr6zrP5TZIOwhsbfkJH4i&export=download" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
</figure>
<style>figure {margin: 0;} </style>
<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Of David.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">“The Lord is my light and my salvation— <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">whom shall I fear? <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Lord is the stronghold of my life— <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">of whom shall I be afraid? <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">When the wicked advance against me <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">to devour me, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">it is my enemies and my foes <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">who will stumble and fall. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Though an army besiege me, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">my heart will not fear; <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">though war break out against me, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">even then I will be confident.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Psalm 27:1-3 NIV</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9_gJEmoSQF-vHTG4zr3y8GXJATjpidAmcudD_GqG91vf_kEEgYSc4ARWhZLt2dauV3CTriqqVP050n-FB5rIew0FQtq5xBua1gDejsKKu8r8HYtReF5H6VCBTqptKyewypgAyUSMsXH-ByFf9X9IZg8Lawto4G_2XXE1CP54VCSrEpbEfSOiQvEAuFG0/s6000/DSC_0527.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Light green hydrangea bloom tinged with pink and shadowed on the left side of the image" border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9_gJEmoSQF-vHTG4zr3y8GXJATjpidAmcudD_GqG91vf_kEEgYSc4ARWhZLt2dauV3CTriqqVP050n-FB5rIew0FQtq5xBua1gDejsKKu8r8HYtReF5H6VCBTqptKyewypgAyUSMsXH-ByFf9X9IZg8Lawto4G_2XXE1CP54VCSrEpbEfSOiQvEAuFG0/w640-h426/DSC_0527.JPG" width="640" /></a></b></div><b><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Psalm 27, God through David has given us a prayer-song for when we are afraid of the dark—whatever kind of dark, whether literal darkness or emotional and spiritual darkness. In this Psalm, David seeks shelter in God’s personal presence with confidence borne out of His past rescues. <a href="https://www.crumbsfromhistable.com/2023/10/psalm-27-prayer-for-three-oclock-in.html" target="_blank">In the first post, we considered the themes and structure of the Psalm as a whole.</a> In this post, we’re dwelling on the first section of three verses.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In this first section (27:1-3), David describes his experience of God’s saving defense. The Psalm begins with a pair of parallel couplets: David says something true of God, then asks a rhetorical question brimming with confidence. And he does this twice.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">He has known the Lord as his light, his salvation, his stronghold, and his defense.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Light at night gives us guidance and security. City girls like me are rather insulated against real darkness, apart from a blackout during a storm, but we might think of a flashlight when there is no power or a nightlight in a dark bedroom for comfort and vision. Or perhaps we think of the comforting familiarity of the lights given by God to mark the days and seasons, the constellations and moonlight that guided and kept David company during the long nights with his flocks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Without light at night, we so easily lose our way. In college, I had to drive down a dark, two-lane country road to go to an evening Bible study. Looking for an unlit gate and driveway in the absence of streetlights or even house lights visible from the highway always gave me anxiety. The void of a dark world beyond the small puddle of light from my headlamps felt ominous and insecure. I wanted brighter, better light to lead me to my destination. Continuing the theme, we might think of the pillar of God’s glory-fire which led and also guarded the Israelites during their wilderness wanderings for 40 years:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">“The Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to lead them on their way during the day and in a pillar of fire to give them light at night, so that they could travel day or night. The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night never left its place in front of the people.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Exodus </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">13:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">21-</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">22 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">CSB</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">That light showed God’s people God’s way and provided a visible reminder of the security of God’s presence. God also displayed His presence in a bright <i>shekinah</i> glory cloud descending on Solomon’s temple at its dedication:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">“When the priests came out of the holy place, the cloud filled the Lord’s temple, and because of the cloud, the priests were not able to continue ministering, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">1 Kings </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">8:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">10-</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">11 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">CSB</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In these two examples, the presence of God manifests as light, glorious light. In the new Jerusalem to come, the apostle John foresaw:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">“The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. Its gates will never close by day because it will never be night there.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Revelation </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">21:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">23-</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">25 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">CSB</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Lord is not only David’s light: He is also his salvation. Salvation, in its simplest sense, means rescue. In Hebrew, it could also be translated “room to breathe” (<i>Thomas Nelson Study Bible</i>, note on Psalm 3:8). “Light” and “salvation” in combination convey the single concept of “saving light.” The most intense darkness I remember was the darkness outside our tent on a camping trip early in our marriage. My mini Maglite flashlight could not budge the weighed blanket of darkness pressing in on me. Darkness like that feels alive and threatening, even predatory. Every noise is freighted with awful possibility and unseen dangers. In that darkness, a trusted person bearing a stronger light would have felt like rescue and security. (The related names Joshua and Jesus mean “Yahweh saves,” or in the simplest sense, “Savior.”) It is possible that the salvation in this verse has a near-term meaning of God’s miraculous rescue from human enemies and physical danger, of which David knew plenty; at the same time, it is possible that the shadow of the cross marks this verse with the spiritual sense of rescue from sin and death in the person of the Savior, Jesus Christ. In any case, David celebrates God as his Rescuer, even though in the moment he is surrounded by enemies who want to eat him alive (verse 2).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The word “stronghold” or “refuge” conveys the image of a fortress or castle. Tolkien fans may think of Helm’s Deep; or in a more modern image, one might imagine a nuclear bunker deep beneath the earth or a panic room. This fortress is such a sure and well-defended one that the wicked advancing against David will themselves be defeated. David has confidence because God is his impenetrable fortress, a castle no enemy can breach without His permission.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Where does this confidence come from? Surrounded by enemies, threatened by the wicked, war declared against him, even so David is confident in victory. David can take courage despite overwhelming foes and difficulties because, as strong and powerful as they are, his God is even mightier. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">This confidence does not imply that trusting God means health, wealth, and prosperity. Nor does it guarantee every battle will go our way or no hurt come to us. It does, however, mean that for the child of God, all things weave together for our good and God’s glory. It means God is with us and for us in all things. It means that, when the last page of our life is written, all shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well (Julian of Norwich).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">As a whole, David testifies that God is his light in the darkness, his comforting Guide, his Rescuer, his secure fortress, his unconquerable defense. This first section of Psalm 27 starts and ends with David’s declaration of trust: even if an entire army has him surrounded and declares war, his heart will not fear but will instead be confident. So strong is his experience of God’s protection.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">An echo of David’s confidence sounds a millennium later at the end of Romans 8:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">“What, then, are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He did not even spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him grant us everything? Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies. Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is the one who died, but even more, has been raised; he also is at the right hand of God and intercedes for us. Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: Because of you we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered. No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Romans </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">8:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">31-</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">37 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">CSB</span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">What about you? Can you remember a time in your life when the Lord showed Himself to be your light and your salvation? Have you experienced God’s rescue from enemies who were too strong for you? If so, spend some time remembering and perhaps journaling God’s work in your past as a way to encourage trust in Him now. If not, I encourage you to borrow courage from the experiences of people in the Bible and Christian history: people like Joseph and Joshua, David and Elijah, Daniel and Peter and Paul; people like Corrie ten Boom, Darlene Deibler Rose, John Newton, John Bunyan, Jane Grey, Ridley and Latimer, and Charles Spurgeon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Are you overwhelmed and outnumbered by enemies and battles today? Are you besieged by trials and squeezed by difficulties? Does it feel like human helpers have failed and comforts fled, leaving you alone and scared in the dark? If so, my heart is with yours. Your troubles do not mean God’s absence. He will never leave or abandon you. The battles you’ve lost and sins you’ve committed do not mean you have lost the war or forfeited God’s love. In the darkness, I encourage you to dwell on the greatness and power of God more than you contemplate the strength of your enemies and the size of your challenges. In the darkness, the stars seem brighter. Look for the light in the darkness; ask for His light. Look for the promises of God. Look at His faithfulness over the millennia of human history. Hope against hope that He will be for you what He has been for others.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The God who has rescued, led, defended, and comforted in the dark nights and desperate battles of others still does so today. We can trust Him with our souls’ three o’clocks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lord, in our darkness shine Your light.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In our tribulations, be our Rescuer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">When we are under attack from enemies without and fears within, be our strong refuge, our safe place.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">All our hope and confidence are in You. We believe; help our unbelief, in Jesus’ name. Amen. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><br /></p>tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-43584673426291222622023-10-16T16:35:00.008-05:002023-11-28T11:25:28.190-06:00An Introduction to Psalm 27: A Prayer for Three O’Clock in the Morning<figure>
<figcaption>Listen to me read the audio file</figcaption>
<audio controls="" src="https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=12MF1aJtd-6T1IYzIl13_msFrsDeMXqcH&export=download" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
</figure>
<style>figure {margin: 0;} </style>
<div dir="auto"><i><br /></i></div><div dir="auto"><i><br /></i></div><div dir="auto"><i>This is the first installment of a series on Psalm 27. Here are four photos from Saturday’s annular eclipse and one of Venus, the Morning Star, in the east just before the dawn.</i></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdniFZl5aMYBbim1F-d5mq7Gf2jboV1z-lrHa-9oqBz_4v6US0MKga62fWjCzeqohtUV6IeKV3qWScHjBa8G_1jatHrEX-3QJ3Hnju3nQWXBJLTdvGlsA9-EccWObsihwjh5vktLJfE4MzAVYUh_szPbNQ5VeoQEUYkWOsIWI7HDolJ_hkYZ0jAQ4VNnw/s4032/IMG_7298.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Myriad parentheses of light on the stepping stones during the annular eclipse (the tiny spaces between tree leaves acted as pinhole viewers)" border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdniFZl5aMYBbim1F-d5mq7Gf2jboV1z-lrHa-9oqBz_4v6US0MKga62fWjCzeqohtUV6IeKV3qWScHjBa8G_1jatHrEX-3QJ3Hnju3nQWXBJLTdvGlsA9-EccWObsihwjh5vktLJfE4MzAVYUh_szPbNQ5VeoQEUYkWOsIWI7HDolJ_hkYZ0jAQ4VNnw/w480-h640/IMG_7298.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvQAObF3pv-WMfhFpDFnknayofnsT7GSRTvocDomtYd9QBDIhqfVI898gDPjRs61OPEUrPAdCdwxmcE9KbCgIaqJj2RspinpxW8I_guFSMCVTesdy1G-FbTIm968e0PhJZ0PqkwW8hFfCv-an-PNH7WRSYu-WwFeSSeKTHh0YAfd38IpEORtKJDv3A8uI/s4032/IMG_7299.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The small gaps in tree leaves created many mini-eclipses, parentheses of light, on the ground during the annular eclipse Saturday, 14 October 2023." border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvQAObF3pv-WMfhFpDFnknayofnsT7GSRTvocDomtYd9QBDIhqfVI898gDPjRs61OPEUrPAdCdwxmcE9KbCgIaqJj2RspinpxW8I_guFSMCVTesdy1G-FbTIm968e0PhJZ0PqkwW8hFfCv-an-PNH7WRSYu-WwFeSSeKTHh0YAfd38IpEORtKJDv3A8uI/w480-h640/IMG_7299.HEIC" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3pjpe8DktG-vvVT4cOP2sDKTyV3aHxj_C-2K7rblxgybByfRpWIYmbrvXVV81hK7ixRl0ps7Mn3FIaVpal45cS06XvVJTOJK63ZZaHKbvj11G6hmJiuD4BVkmI8_b-aWG05fFeiu_eTSMQDYru1TwxOfUwAhIy4tBh5F-1fbqymWHKVxVosZ471z_1JQ/s4032/IMG_7296.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The small gaps in tree leaves created many mini-eclipses, parentheses of light, on the ground during the annular eclipse Saturday, 14 October 2023." border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3pjpe8DktG-vvVT4cOP2sDKTyV3aHxj_C-2K7rblxgybByfRpWIYmbrvXVV81hK7ixRl0ps7Mn3FIaVpal45cS06XvVJTOJK63ZZaHKbvj11G6hmJiuD4BVkmI8_b-aWG05fFeiu_eTSMQDYru1TwxOfUwAhIy4tBh5F-1fbqymWHKVxVosZ471z_1JQ/w480-h640/IMG_7296.HEIC" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYiCpVl4ODlLCv9HmKg9E3Z1ipxIK-CypajFY_bv73YCraFcuckRhzjw9-VeW-jalK79wk0NOtVENfMIGNhy9XYaufRcgXKniAyKHKzA1XInzh85QJo5Kd1s_kBlnKaBQ5xWUYExIL_CNPIz5OcY00ZeQFn_IdmfdR_9bVMiDujNxZwZG88xFBCU5YDEM/s4032/IMG_7295.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The shadow of a paper plate and part of the writer shade a brown stone patio. The pinhole in the plate shows a tiny eclipse on the ground as an arc of light in the black shadow." border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYiCpVl4ODlLCv9HmKg9E3Z1ipxIK-CypajFY_bv73YCraFcuckRhzjw9-VeW-jalK79wk0NOtVENfMIGNhy9XYaufRcgXKniAyKHKzA1XInzh85QJo5Kd1s_kBlnKaBQ5xWUYExIL_CNPIz5OcY00ZeQFn_IdmfdR_9bVMiDujNxZwZG88xFBCU5YDEM/w480-h640/IMG_7295.HEIC" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv3-eQewUnhc0TEEi0GN5Iu_z3Q3JofJVUG7rGEwVY808gPCl9o1rZgUuPAuDYmyS5faXcPEvy7AJk6EE-7yxMZ3Had3I8OBXjIQc0L35_TLrTY9M_FQvMYuFLZj4glTrnf52RDyVOhXr8hzrFQ2lSoCrYkgiyNkLRMKpWW65EaPKLcf3vTOhjs-al7M/s4032/IMG_7307.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A single dot of white light shines in the gray-blue gradient sky of early morning. The sun hasn’t risen yet, and silhouettes of trees cover the bottom quarter of the image." border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv3-eQewUnhc0TEEi0GN5Iu_z3Q3JofJVUG7rGEwVY808gPCl9o1rZgUuPAuDYmyS5faXcPEvy7AJk6EE-7yxMZ3Had3I8OBXjIQc0L35_TLrTY9M_FQvMYuFLZj4glTrnf52RDyVOhXr8hzrFQ2lSoCrYkgiyNkLRMKpWW65EaPKLcf3vTOhjs-al7M/w480-h640/IMG_7307.HEIC" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Have you ever been afraid of the dark? As a child, were you afraid of monsters under the bed or ghouls in the closet? Or perhaps you are not afraid of the absence of light but of the dark night of the soul, the three-o’clock bleakness of spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">You may know the author Lucy Maud Montgomery from her character Anne Shirley. In another series, her character Emily Starr experienced these “white nights,” as she called them, at times of loss and momentous decisions. Here is one typical description:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Woke up at three and couldn't even cry. Tears seemed as foolish as laughter—or ambition. I was quite bankrupt in hope and belief. And then I got up in the chilly grey dawn and began a new story. Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Unfortunately there's a three o'clock every night," said Teddy. "At that ungodly hour I am always convinced that if you want things too much you're not likely ever to get them” (L. M. Montgomery, <i>Emily’s Quest</i>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">F. Scott Fitzgerald used the same metaphor years later in <i>The Crack-Up</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Or perhaps you have said with the late Rich Mullins, “When I wake up in the night and feel the dark/It’s so hot inside my soul, I swear there must be blisters on my heart” (“Hold Me Jesus,” from <i>A Liturgy, A Legacy, and a Ragamuffin Band</i>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Have you known that feeling? I suspect many, if not most, of us have in the last four years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">When you are afraid of the dark, whatever kind of dark it is, what do you want? For myself, I think I want two things: a light and a person, specifically someone bigger and stronger than me. A protector. A champion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">King David, ruler of Israel three millennia ago, would have been on friendly terms with the night and constellations from his youth as a shepherd. He had faced and bested the wild things that might seize the darkness to prowl and pounce on the sheep he kept. But I suspect there were many other nights alone with flock and stars, with perhaps a stone for his pillow and his harp for refreshment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">David, however, knew many, many spiritual and emotional dark nights. He faced attacks from enemies, betrayals from friends, consequences of his own lost spiritual battles, tragic sins among his children, and even a coup by his own beloved Absalom, Absalom, his son.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Psalm 27, God through David has given us a prayer-song for when we are afraid of the dark. Whatever kind of dark. In these verses, David seeks shelter in God’s personal presence with confidence borne out of His past rescues. Like me, he seems to seek God’s light and His protection.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">As I have prayerfully pondered this passage, I see five sections. The first four sections each begin with statements of David’s relationship with God and conclude with a declaration of trust. The final section consists of a single verse that captures David’s counsel to his own heart. In verses 1-3, David describes his experience of God’s saving defense; in verses 4-6, David describes his expectation of God’s sheltering presence; in verses 7-10, David pleads for God’s presence; and in verses 11-13, David pleads for God’s protection. Alternately, verses 1-6 describe David’s experience and expectation of God’s protection, and in verses 7-13 David pleads directly to God for His protective presence. In the concluding section, verse 14, David counsels his heart toward courage.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the coming posts, we will seek to work through these verses one section at a time and conclude by asking and answering the question of what difference this makes in our own dark nights. For the moment, I will offer you this: the sun has not abandoned us at 3AM, and it has not failed when a solar eclipse blocks its light at midday. The sun still shines and radiates heat, even when we cannot see it. The difficulty is that something has come between us temporarily and hidden it from our view. Yet it always returns and always will until that great Day when we will no more need sun or moon, for the Lord our God will be our light in the eternal nightless city.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the dark, faith waits in expectation of the light’s return. Faith holds fast to the hope that the light remains even when we cannot see it. Sometimes we grow weary of the waiting, and our faith and hope waver. In those seasons, this Psalm reminds me to remember the times the light previously shone out of darkness, both in my own life and in the lives of other people of faith, past and present. Remembering yesterday’s light sustains me in today’s darkness with hope light may return as soon as tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Will we let God’s mysterious hiddenness drive us from Him or drive us to seek His face even more? Hudson Taylor, the pioneer missionary to inland China, said this: “It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies—whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Your face, Lord, I will seek. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Psalm 27:8<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Before the next post in this series, I suggest that you take time, if possible, to read or listen to the whole of Psalm 27 at least once. As we go on, I will provide the Bible text in shorter segments to keep it before our minds for our reflections. With the final post, I intend to provide the option to download a PDF document of the whole series in one place.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Courage, dear hearts!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div dir="auto"></div> tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-52526406455364569552023-10-11T11:28:00.004-05:002023-10-11T11:28:28.511-05:00Burden-Bearing God<figure>
<figcaption>Listen to me read the audio file</figcaption>
<audio controls="" src="https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1aOa9fvsb7pEKcbSDa26RbZUDak9gU1fZ&export=download" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
</figure>
<style>figure {margin: 0;} </style>
<div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.crumbsfromhistable.com/2023/10/burden-bearing-god.html" target="_blank">Click here to listen on the web.</a></span></div><div><br /></div>Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up;<br />God is our salvation. Selah" <br /><br />Psalm 68:19 ESV <br /><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbWIEeTggYy914fsc5kHJu4fm5LHsc4IXGwcldoVII2hHM_YOhiQtfKRzfiZcxPzuMLoPGxltnVchezJFT5k6lCw7g08FQhIktJ9sLJHtexpk-lLXdZc8wl3y_00Ibmkm_szr5NmYES5MIw225y3aSOixb2ynUHms0Vs8ycr_qmbNjbcAVxbeqgJHEPzU/s1920/Burden-bearing%20God%20You%20hold%20us%20up%20when%20our%20shoulders%20bow%20and%20knees%20buckle%20under%20the%20heavy%20load%20of%20trials%20(and%20duties%20and%20blessings).%20You%20hold%20us%20together%20when%20we%20are%20falling%20apart.%20You%20hold%20us%20fas.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Lock screen of this prayer, white text on background like an old photo of a sea on a cloudy day" border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbWIEeTggYy914fsc5kHJu4fm5LHsc4IXGwcldoVII2hHM_YOhiQtfKRzfiZcxPzuMLoPGxltnVchezJFT5k6lCw7g08FQhIktJ9sLJHtexpk-lLXdZc8wl3y_00Ibmkm_szr5NmYES5MIw225y3aSOixb2ynUHms0Vs8ycr_qmbNjbcAVxbeqgJHEPzU/w360-h640/Burden-bearing%20God%20You%20hold%20us%20up%20when%20our%20shoulders%20bow%20and%20knees%20buckle%20under%20the%20heavy%20load%20of%20trials%20(and%20duties%20and%20blessings).%20You%20hold%20us%20together%20when%20we%20are%20falling%20apart.%20You%20hold%20us%20fas.png" title="This poem as a lock screen for you <3" width="360" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div>Burden-bearing God: <br /><br />You hold us up when our shoulders bow and knees buckle<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span> </span>under the heavy load of trials (and duties and blessings). <br /><br />You hold us together when we are falling apart. <br /><br />You hold us fast when we can't hold on. <br /><br />You hold us in your impenetrable,</div><div><br /></div><div><span> </span>unsnatchable,</div><div><br /></div><div><span> </span>unalterable grasp of love and power. <br /><br />You hold us with tungsten strength and maternal gentleness. <br /><br />You hold us; <br /><br />Grace us, Lord, with trust enough to rest in the refuge of Your hands, <br /><br />In the name of Jesus,</div><div><br /></div><div>Whose hands and heart and head <br /><br />Were wounded for my transgressions <br /><br />And crushed for my iniquities, <br /><br />Amen.<div><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div> </div></div> </div></div><br /></div>tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-70728317254901971112023-10-03T14:39:00.001-05:002023-10-03T14:39:20.451-05:00Tenderhearted Savior {A Prayer}
<figure>
<figcaption>Listen to me read this post:</figcaption>
<audio controls="" src="https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=129BiOyANl4X5NV824-T7PcLOSdY8MQli&export=download" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
</figure>
<style>figure {margin: 0;} </style>
<div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio9cXSWxFZGYiXtZ53PRCgpwMTWr4rPU8avu1OJDWX3uDU_rQHs-3Hi1zrF9QBDnmoCv14F1FP5QtGRW2fTdVXBMKHAL6T4sePnJqMlLrZgxnRc8ia3y8pMu3Ggfzr2WI4Qk9Jufd9TgvT__TkCCl3uY_Nnigy32Poe1FP_GVAlKTZVgkzi-zu2zhCKxg/s6000/DSC_0806.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio9cXSWxFZGYiXtZ53PRCgpwMTWr4rPU8avu1OJDWX3uDU_rQHs-3Hi1zrF9QBDnmoCv14F1FP5QtGRW2fTdVXBMKHAL6T4sePnJqMlLrZgxnRc8ia3y8pMu3Ggfzr2WI4Qk9Jufd9TgvT__TkCCl3uY_Nnigy32Poe1FP_GVAlKTZVgkzi-zu2zhCKxg/w640-h426/DSC_0806.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harvest Moon, September 2023</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbi2_NN5tVOd5FRjSXZQmlHkfatB1eCFs0y5s43crca4JiWzUjXZdmw1L2JucaRFkT3KAyWMSO7vNw8df2V-ahEOkh9JdcOlYNj5Jr-4TSmfjXgWGwg8_p3xQqOhCjvQdXdhrjvpN-aZJcX_c7WUS74dci1KQ8IbBYqJZSJXDzWM5tuJY40lFXxnzHOAU/s6000/DSC_0788.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6000" data-original-width="4000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbi2_NN5tVOd5FRjSXZQmlHkfatB1eCFs0y5s43crca4JiWzUjXZdmw1L2JucaRFkT3KAyWMSO7vNw8df2V-ahEOkh9JdcOlYNj5Jr-4TSmfjXgWGwg8_p3xQqOhCjvQdXdhrjvpN-aZJcX_c7WUS74dci1KQ8IbBYqJZSJXDzWM5tuJY40lFXxnzHOAU/w426-h640/DSC_0788.JPG" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unidentified garden plant</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6BesMOqSKLvKT1T9BKrTY7eUfX1ToN9lEceVoVW9s2qL0KDofGga65A1nIplcTe7qvjV8V_BQMMfvNUr9oIcaTbKik3i2-gaFfocm3s-zFAZFBlSmbyk6L1ZWb6THTRkB-pcgYlb7PinnBwRrjbs0BMamcIba2mL3IVy4_jhksib6nSCK0oL7IPMWwLY/s6000/DSC_0783.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6BesMOqSKLvKT1T9BKrTY7eUfX1ToN9lEceVoVW9s2qL0KDofGga65A1nIplcTe7qvjV8V_BQMMfvNUr9oIcaTbKik3i2-gaFfocm3s-zFAZFBlSmbyk6L1ZWb6THTRkB-pcgYlb7PinnBwRrjbs0BMamcIba2mL3IVy4_jhksib6nSCK0oL7IPMWwLY/w640-h426/DSC_0783.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moonflower and honeybee</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUzDW4CP7sOZELuY3wz3MNhezKUtbsiIfjNbkcyUi1Do0rfAhhOg1yR9wDKk_P8Lb9o1OEgYovAPBMQ7ean7uuBP6XYvgwbOs0zt00zKHtCGGHFGMrslSYHMuLJxY92lroBeKFkvEjykq0p87KfdRMi3_8mQXrist-S8uSURq7w8C8W1bDFlAsz8dGXKI/s6000/DSC_0424.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUzDW4CP7sOZELuY3wz3MNhezKUtbsiIfjNbkcyUi1Do0rfAhhOg1yR9wDKk_P8Lb9o1OEgYovAPBMQ7ean7uuBP6XYvgwbOs0zt00zKHtCGGHFGMrslSYHMuLJxY92lroBeKFkvEjykq0p87KfdRMi3_8mQXrist-S8uSURq7w8C8W1bDFlAsz8dGXKI/w640-h426/DSC_0424.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, ventral wings fully open</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Tenderhearted Savior,</div><div dir="auto">Rich in mercy and inexhaustible in grace,</div><div dir="auto">We come before you today with full hearts and empty hands:</div><div dir="auto">Pour your strengthening love into our hearts</div><div dir="auto">And your loving strength into our hands.</div><div dir="auto">Deal gently with our infirmities;</div><div dir="auto">Grant wisdom for our perplexities;</div><div dir="auto">Comfort us in all adversity;</div><div dir="auto">Come alongside us in every difficulty.</div><div dir="auto">Hear and answer our prayers even when we have no words, only tears.</div><div dir="auto">When we are in darkness, let Your light shine brighter.</div><div dir="auto">When we are in pain, let Your love be nearer.</div><div dir="auto">Meet us at the point of our deepest needs today,</div><div dir="auto">For Your glory and our good,</div><div dir="auto">In Jesus' name. Amen.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjPmwrw3k05UtUeyk_7ynQJ8ynX80B7ksFoEuiSU-U9quxwzEBk_wOULKu0XP1mtltxlqare1raamoIW23674-XvRAmVNJttHz6CPlsyYgrpmpsIfenPAudB43rodFaTQsut6AfwpFIUiJInuIua-dEdPCL2Y2j32vZtNK3bbMFfVTlN1b75OLQu4hLD0/s2048/C88AF0FE-9060-4164-8761-7B66AD52CFDD.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjPmwrw3k05UtUeyk_7ynQJ8ynX80B7ksFoEuiSU-U9quxwzEBk_wOULKu0XP1mtltxlqare1raamoIW23674-XvRAmVNJttHz6CPlsyYgrpmpsIfenPAudB43rodFaTQsut6AfwpFIUiJInuIua-dEdPCL2Y2j32vZtNK3bbMFfVTlN1b75OLQu4hLD0/w426-h640/C88AF0FE-9060-4164-8761-7B66AD52CFDD.png" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The prayer as downloadable image, white print against backdrop of flaming sunrise</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><i>(Update: Audio has now been added to <a href="https://www.crumbsfromhistable.com/2023/07/the-lord-is-peace.html" target="_blank">"The Lord Is Peace"</a> also.)</i></div> tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-37431581832370510352023-09-22T14:34:00.000-05:002023-09-22T14:34:18.759-05:00Sacrament of the Ordinary<figure>
<figcaption>Listen to me read this post:</figcaption>
<audio controls="" src="https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1sBqRtL3wsLi7ZQjSdL_SW4tzji5W5vZc&export=download" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
</figure>
<style>figure {margin: 0;} </style>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL0zz6O0LOVrXhtlQGb87Fu4MPUY7SnP5jEJQ_U2tgUd3skHCy4lbt1P6PzCvLg9XKLVTgNn798dwA9VvHOeR6UXI0XPYb12Gw3MGIUM9Cb1moqV_zNaRmJG7ZDU4bQ4vTU89RLJ877A5BgHqyWQBZH7nUUuFjhvHRwgruv32VO6eSZW20Vp9b3GMKNwk/s6000/DSC_0386.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A fiery orange sunrise with silhouettes of trees along the bottom and lower corners of the frame" border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL0zz6O0LOVrXhtlQGb87Fu4MPUY7SnP5jEJQ_U2tgUd3skHCy4lbt1P6PzCvLg9XKLVTgNn798dwA9VvHOeR6UXI0XPYb12Gw3MGIUM9Cb1moqV_zNaRmJG7ZDU4bQ4vTU89RLJ877A5BgHqyWQBZH7nUUuFjhvHRwgruv32VO6eSZW20Vp9b3GMKNwk/w640-h426/DSC_0386.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Three
riders rode silently through the silent, black night, even their eyes darkened
except in the passing illuminations when the clouds exposed the
moon. When they heard the crunch of gravel beneath the horses’
hooves, they smiled to themselves, knowing that at last they had reached the
dry riverbed which marked the last leg of their journey.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Suddenly
the horses started and reared, spooked by some invisible
danger. Before the riders could quiet them again, a Voice sliced
through the darkness: “Halt, riders. Gather stones from
this riverbed, and I assure you, when morning breaks you will be both sad and
glad.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Stunned
into silence, after a moment the riders shrugged and broke into nervous
laughter. “We’ve nothing to lose,” said their leader. As
one man in the pale moonlight, they stooped, and each chose a handful of stones
to toss into a pocket. Their horses calmed, they remounted and rode
on until morning.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> When
they stopped to water their horses and swallow their meager breakfast, one of
them remembered the stones. He emptied his pocket and gasped in
amazement. Seeing him, the other two followed suit and stared in
wonder. The handfuls of river rocks they had gathered in the night
had been transformed into rubies, sapphires, diamonds, and pearls.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> As
the Voice had foretold, as morning broke they were both sad and
glad: glad they had obeyed the strange command, but weeping with
sorrow that they had not filled pockets and saddlebags to overflowing with all
they could carry.<a name="_ftnref1"></a><a href="file:///C:/Users/tinuv/Documents/Essays/The%20Sacrament%20of%20%20the%20Ordinary.doc#_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">*</span></span></a><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">*************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> The
unexceptional pebbles of our daily existence are the raw material <st1:city u2:st="on"><st1:place u2:st="on">Providence</st1:place></st1:city> chooses
for the altar on which to offer ourselves back to God as a living
sacrifice. It is not the poverty of our offering but the glory of
His acceptance which transforms them into something beautiful and
enduring. Obedience in our ordinary duties becomes the outward and
visible sign – the sacrament, if you will – of the inward and spiritual grace
of His love abiding in those who obey.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> The
consecrated heart discovers this transforming grace of God in every place and
activity He assigns. The commonest thing – from data entry to dishes
to preparing lesson plans to changing diapers – takes on the very glory of
heaven when done as unto the Lord. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some reading
this may protest, “But I have POTS (or fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, Long COVID,
autoimmune disease, MS) and all I can do is lie on the couch. I can’t even read
or watch screens much right now. How am I supposed to work as unto the Lord? I
can’t work at all.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have been
there too. I am so thankful you are here. I recorded a reading of this post
largely for you. From my experience of life and Scripture, I can say this: if
my portion for the day is to rest a sick body, do physical therapy, swallow
pills, and navigate all that is involved in accessing medical care, even that
can be offered to the Lord as worship. If all I can do is receive care
from others, alone in a dark room and largely deprived of sensory stimuli, I
can offer my suffering to the Lord and trust Him to receive it. I can pray when
able and offer my silence and listening to Him when unable. I can seek from the
Lord a cheerful and grateful heart toward my helpers. I can lean all my weight on the everlasting arms of God and glorify Him by resting in His grace.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">No matter the
life circumstance, even in prison if it comes to that: as I keep the windows of
my soul open toward <st1:city u2:st="on"><st1:place u2:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city> all
day long, inviting the wind of His Spirit to blow through me, the humblest
duties become means to receive His grace.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> What
is this sacramental life? For one thing, it is more easily described
than defined. As a child, I had an African violet in my bedroom
window. I never lost my amazement that, no matter how I turned it in
the morning, by the time I came home from school it had tilted itself toward
the sunlight coming through the window. When we returned to the
United States from the mission field, I would laugh at my nine year-old dog
Steinway. After 3 years of separation under my parents’ care, he
didn’t want to lose me again, I suppose, so he followed me around the house all
day long. Even when we were in the same room and I was in plain
view, he followed me with his eyes. The Ebony Dog who succeeded him
would do the same thing. His whole being was oriented toward me. The
sacramental life is like that: practicing the discipline of fixing
my eyes on Jesus, no matter what, until it becomes habit; continually adjusting
my attitude and actions in the changing circumstances of life so that the
direction of my gaze remains constant in the midst of it all.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 5.45pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">*************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Granted,
this truth is easier to write than to live. The world, both without
and within the church, opposes it, the flesh shuns it, and the devil thwarts
it. Contemporary Christless society believes work is what we do to
earn money in order to be able to spend the rest of our time doing as we
please. On the contrary, the Scriptures teach that it is in our work
as well as our rest that we fulfill God’s design for us. Adam was
given the task of cultivating the garden in the day of his creation, not as punishment
for eating the forbidden fruit. It is only the toilsome frustration
of work now which results from sin. Even in the church, we tend to
glorify “full-time Christian service” (which being interpreted is paid
employment in gospel ministry) as somehow more holy than other vocations, but
the Scriptures teach that we are to do <i>all things</i> to the glory
of God (Col 3:17). Was Jesus less holy and obedient to His Father in
His first thirty years of submission to His parents, learning Joseph’s
carpentry trade, and supporting his widowed mother and siblings as was His
responsibility as the oldest son, than he was in His three years of public
ministry? Was the apostle Paul following Christ at a distance during
the days he spent making tents so that he would not place a burden on the
churches to support him? Yet in our elevation of professional
Christian ministry (especially missions) above all other careers, is this not
what we imply?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Our
own flesh, the self-life, plays right into this idea. After all,
it’s far more glamorous to write a book for the Christian bestseller list than
to write a letter to a shut-in cut off from other Christian fellowship, or a
note to tuck in a child’s lunchbox. It’s much more gratifying to the
ego to cook a meal for a roomful of grateful, hungry people at the local
homeless shelter than for a kitchen of grumbling teenagers who seem only to
complain. It may be more motivating to build a house for Habitat for
Humanity than to keep up with the home repairs on a honey-do list. It’s
often easier to travel half a world away to preach Christ to those you will
never see again than it is faithfully to live out the gospel and speak when God
opens doors among your usual acquaintances, who may make life uncomfortable for
you if they don’t agree. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The rewards for public ministry are also public; we have our
compensation in the applause of the watching crowd. The rewards for
a life lived in quiet obedience carried out before the face of God are
primarily between the soul and her Lord, although such a life cannot help but
bear fruit in the character and outward life as well, as we become what we
behold (2 Cor. 3:18). Does that make them less
precious? Hardly. What can be sweeter than going about my
day in the constant companionship of my Best-Beloved? Jesus promised
exactly that treasure to those who abide in Him by keeping His
commandments: “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My
Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our abode with him. . .
. Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in
My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love;
just as I have kept My Father’s commandments, and abide in His
love. These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may be in you,
and that your joy may be made full” (John 14:23; 15:9-11, NASB1995).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Finally,
the devil is all too happy to support this notion of work as something that
keeps us from doing “real ministry” and drains the joy from life. If
believed, this idea may produce a sloppily done or entirely neglected duty, all
for the sake of “ministry.” On the other hand, as Lazarus’ sister
Martha illustrates, we may be easily distracted by work as an end in itself so
that we miss God’s still, small voice speaking to us through it. The
thorns which choked the growth of the seed in the parable of the soils, after
all, are the cares and worries of the world. Either error,
forsaking duty for ministry or losing sight of God in the busyness of work,
comes from the enemy and distorts the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 5.45pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">*************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> “But
how can I expect to hear a still, small voice in a carpool of noisy
pre-schoolers shouting?” or perhaps “. . . when the only beauty in my work is
the fake ivy peeking over from the next cubicle?” I never said it
was easy, but I assure you: insofar as you gather the pebbles of the ordinary
and offer them to God, you will be both sad and glad. More
importantly than my lone opinion, the testimony of the Christians of the past
assures you of the same truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Brother
Lawrence wrote of it as the “practice of the presence of God” in his book by
that name. Though a monk, his duties differed little from those of
the average housewife (excepting the carpool of screaming kids). He
learned the art of constant conversation with God even as he scrubbed pots and
worked in the garden, and it transformed his attitude and
relationships. This can begin simply, with a hymnal over the sink, a
recording of sacred music or Scripture playing in the car, prayer reminders
where one will see them often, or Scripture memory cards next to the computer
for those inevitable delays while the program opens or document
saves. Whatever reminds us to look back to Jesus when we lose our
focus will help us on this journey.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Martin
Luther wrote, “The works of monks and priests, however holy and arduous they
be, do not differ in one whit in the sight of God from the works of the rustic
laborer in the field or the woman going about her household tasks, but that all
the works are measured before God by faith alone. . . . Indeed, the
menial housework of a manservant or maidservant is often more acceptable to God
than all the fastings and other works of a monk or priest, because the monk or
priest lacks faith” (quoted in Os Guinness, <i>The Call</i>, 34).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Elisabeth
Leseur, a housewife in upper-class French society in the late nineteenth
century, began to follow Christ as the rather unexpected consequence of her
husband’s attempts to persuade her to abandon the trappings of her childhood
religion and join him in militant atheism. When the Lord opened her
eyes to the folly of the arguments before her, He drew her into a personal
relationship with Himself for the first time, as her previous religion had been
merely formal with no sincerity. How did she respond to this turn of
events? She began her own self-study program of the New Testament
and the lives of Christians from history and sought to live out the life and
love of Christ with her husband and the friends her social station required her
to entertain. She lived out 1 Peter 3, despite continual ridicule
from family and friends and increasingly poor health, which prevented her from
leaving her home at all in the last years of her life. She sought to
conduct her life in keeping with resolutions such as the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To go more and more to souls, approaching them with respect and
delicacy, touching them with love. To try always to understand
everything and everyone. Not to argue; to work instead through
contact and example; dissipate prejudice, to reveal God and make Him felt
without speaking of him; to strengthen one’s intelligence, to enlarge one’s
soul. . . ; to love without tiring, in spite of disappointment and
indifference. . . . To learn from the Heart of Jesus the secret of
love for souls and deep knowledge of them: how to touch their hurts
without making them smart and to dress their wounds without reopening them; . .
. to disclose Truth in its entirety and yet make it known according to the
degree of light that each soul can bear (Robin Maas, “A Marriage Saved in Heaven: Elisabeth
Leseur’s Life of Love,” <a href="https://catholicladylive.blogspot.com/2011/02/marriage-saved-in-heaven.html">https://catholicladylive.blogspot.com/2011/02/marriage-saved-in-heaven.html</a>).<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Her life motto became, “Every soul that uplifts itself uplifts the
world.” After her death, the crowds of people touched by her
charitable works and correspondence, reading her journal, and her life itself
became the means of her husband’s conversion. He later entered
vocational Christian ministry and labored to keep her memory alive and honored.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> The
more well-known Christian teacher Oswald Chambers writes frequently of the
“drudgery of discipleship” in his devotional classic <i>My Utmost for His
Highest</i>. For example, in the September 11 entry, he notes, “The
things that Jesus did were of the most menial and commonplace order, and this
is an indication that it takes all God’s power in me to do the most commonplace
things in His way. Can I use a towel as He did? Towels
and dishes and sandals, all the ordinary sordid things of our lives, reveal
more quickly than anything what we are made of. It takes God
Almighty Incarnate in us to do the meanest duty as it ought to be
done.” Again, in the October 21 entry, he writes, “We do not need
the grace of God to stand crises, human nature and pride are sufficient, we can
face the strain magnificently; but it does require the supernatural grace of
God to live twenty-four hours in every day as a saint, to go through drudgery
as a disciple, to live an ordinary, unobserved, ignored existence as a disciple
of Jesus. It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things
for God; but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary
things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned
in five minutes.” No, nor in five lifetimes, it sometime seems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Finally, <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:placename u2:st="on">Evelyn</st1:placename> <st1:placetype u2:st="on">Underhill</st1:placetype></st1:place>,
the twentieth-century English writer on mysticism and the spiritual life, summarizes
these truths. She writes, “A spiritual life is simply a life in
which all that we do comes from the center, where we are anchored in
God: a life soaked through and through by a sense of God’s reality
and claim and self-given to the great movement of God’s
will.” Furthermore, “Some people appear to think that the ‘spiritual
life’ is a peculiar condition mainly supported by cream ices and corrected by
powders. But the solid norm of the spiritual life should be like
that of the natural life: a matter of porridge, bread and butter,
and a cut off the joint. The extremes of joy, discipline, vision,
are not in our hands, but in the Hand of God. The demand for
temperance of soul, for an acknowledgment of the sacred character of the
normal, is based on that fact – the central Christian fact – of the humble
entrance of God into our common human life. The supernatural can and
does seek and find us, in and through our daily normal
experience: the invisible in the visible” (<i>The Soul’s
Delight, </i>11 and 45).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 5.45pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">*************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> The
invisible in the visible, the pearl latent in the grain of sand, the diamond in
the lump of coal, God’s grace conveyed to the human heart in the ordinary
duties at hand in each day. . . Anything done for the glory of God, in
dependence on His Spirit, in obedience to the commands of Christ, may be lifted
to our Lord as a sacrifice of praise. To quote Lilias Trotter, "Meeting
His wishes is all that matters."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
May He strengthen us to learn the discipline of
offering each moment and task in faith to Him, to be transformed by His glory
into the means for His grace to take fuller possession of our hearts through
the sacrament of the ordinary.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br clear="all" />
<o:p></o:p></span></p><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" />
</div><p align="left" class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a name="_ftn1"></a><a href="file:///C:/Users/tinuv/Documents/Essays/The%20Sacrament%20of%20%20the%20Ordinary.doc#_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">*</span></span></a> My version of a story John Baldwin told my church youth group
in the summer of 1990 (although some details have no doubt altered in my
memory); I have found the story used as illustration various places but not
succeeded in tracing the source. If you know, please let me know so I can
attribute it correctly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><u1:p></u1:p>
<u1:p></u1:p>
<u1:p></u1:p>
<u1:p></u1:p>
<u1:p></u1:p>
<u1:p></u1:p>
<u1:p></u1:p>
<u1:p></u1:p>
<u1:p></u1:p>
<u1:p></u1:p>
<u1:p></u1:p>
<u1:p></u1:p>
<u1:p></u1:p>
<u1:p></u1:p>
<u1:p></u1:p>
<u1:p></u1:p>
<u1:p></u1:p>
</span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;">
</div>
</div>tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-34469437339768552762023-09-04T17:33:00.010-05:002023-09-21T14:36:32.597-05:00Catalog of Fragile Beauties
<figure>
<figcaption>Listen to me read this post:</figcaption>
<audio controls="" src="https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1jOC0zPR71YAZ48e5Qy0XkYgFQoXEty4o&export=download" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
</figure>
<style>figure {margin: 0;} </style><br><br><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG7mXidw5KdqAjEfgepLc9e12ZGKUuITl2fJNjqrTs5eGqkjhu7BLbcv7gqoJF8u4u-UHtHpsbe-hkWx907hhoIz4y9DfT2fFTc9dbeI5XxOnVQLZikpjfiMupUFOvyZZDlMTTBLmx6_vnWW8CG970BFK4mvs9wgL2HUYgbz38KvywO5o5_se3I7E0L8I/s6000/DSC_0381.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG7mXidw5KdqAjEfgepLc9e12ZGKUuITl2fJNjqrTs5eGqkjhu7BLbcv7gqoJF8u4u-UHtHpsbe-hkWx907hhoIz4y9DfT2fFTc9dbeI5XxOnVQLZikpjfiMupUFOvyZZDlMTTBLmx6_vnWW8CG970BFK4mvs9wgL2HUYgbz38KvywO5o5_se3I7E0L8I/w640-h426/DSC_0381.JPG" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Male ruby-throated hummingbird at feeder in our back garden</td></tr></tbody></table><br><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY2v_Vo7lWePcia-tuZkab3T9rAwBx-swXAC7yeq5V092UnDfIxe9LOWk-qE-ZktxrIt5J2eYSbxZ55u5DWqc6SOFROXuqVemLJ72yoJAh12F1fdzs1ZMjLXcyU1XMM07Y2-2zQhB43381Fq57TuuTdsozdsbEaCg9A_F1M7RT5ymJrZ8-PaBSu_V0bn4/s6000/DSC_0379.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY2v_Vo7lWePcia-tuZkab3T9rAwBx-swXAC7yeq5V092UnDfIxe9LOWk-qE-ZktxrIt5J2eYSbxZ55u5DWqc6SOFROXuqVemLJ72yoJAh12F1fdzs1ZMjLXcyU1XMM07Y2-2zQhB43381Fq57TuuTdsozdsbEaCg9A_F1M7RT5ymJrZ8-PaBSu_V0bn4/w640-h426/DSC_0379.JPG" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Male ruby-throated hummingbird at feeder in our back garden</td></tr></tbody></table><br><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEkRRM7aw-6osgujsfKppHbWjRPD4W6zpXoiiCvtbNIXcVcHvga7sjXF1TKZbaS0Kdkr2aHJCRvjti1nCpK3P3V03WWUxZc5aZuu6xNx5sQfHh6a3Zc8dEnvvx7vbEg5Z36_fbgbdIjXht-2GFTHAwdylWoTsL-9qUwP9psxCdASEa7veHaAhfx5SEwN8/s6000/DSC_0375.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEkRRM7aw-6osgujsfKppHbWjRPD4W6zpXoiiCvtbNIXcVcHvga7sjXF1TKZbaS0Kdkr2aHJCRvjti1nCpK3P3V03WWUxZc5aZuu6xNx5sQfHh6a3Zc8dEnvvx7vbEg5Z36_fbgbdIjXht-2GFTHAwdylWoTsL-9qUwP9psxCdASEa7veHaAhfx5SEwN8/w640-h426/DSC_0375.JPG" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Female ruby-throated hummingbird at our feeder</td></tr></tbody></table><br><span><p><span></span></p></span><a href="https://www.crumbsfromhistable.com/2023/09/catalog-of-fragile-beauties.html#more">Read more »</a>tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-58609412468890516952023-08-26T14:37:00.004-05:002023-08-27T12:04:19.876-05:00God of Waifs and Strays (A Prayer)<div> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta> <meta content="text/css" http-equiv="Content-Style-Type"></meta> <title></title> <meta content="Cocoa HTML Writer" name="Generator"></meta> <style type="text/css"> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 3.0px 0.0px; font: 26.0px '.AppleSystemUIFont'} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px '.AppleSystemUIFont'} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px '.AppleSystemUIFont'; min-height: 21.0px} span.s1 {font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 26.00px} span.s2 {font-family: 'UICTFontTextStyleBody'; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16.00px} </style> <p class="p1"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">But first, some photos of a black and white warbler we met at Lake Tawakoni State Park last month:</span></i></p><p class="p1"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuSeMKvqTi5EhRmjL0u9M7zZlvMoxYtVUnNdke3anMxhl-QFZMRCbVKMUDNdkCNeGnvtg7F2Cqme4vMUQTB41JrDrL1lXfDxBPPm9okVKUO5sbcWoOI_456fHruNcD-7FBCWQK3DzSMGVo6rhC9dfGsL71WfQ-clBPmonesH82TgNux8XOfZAR1CqNIq8/s6000/DSC_0222.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuSeMKvqTi5EhRmjL0u9M7zZlvMoxYtVUnNdke3anMxhl-QFZMRCbVKMUDNdkCNeGnvtg7F2Cqme4vMUQTB41JrDrL1lXfDxBPPm9okVKUO5sbcWoOI_456fHruNcD-7FBCWQK3DzSMGVo6rhC9dfGsL71WfQ-clBPmonesH82TgNux8XOfZAR1CqNIq8/w640-h426/DSC_0222.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLioN6M501ebrs0eEjcDnkihL_g-GqvzCMA-t4JiUiXb_yM1dr67fUgx5k9EIxiFGtMS1IlYWgdlhG1IpWkOnrIH3XBdKtBjp8VrGW0WyO3TaZp40MRUBWKDCLP82s8Buf2phjHUp7zWV9x4Sk8E2HBWkDVc_KE5GqXIfkjqCn9mwZj6G8z663nSknpoU/s6000/DSC_0210.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLioN6M501ebrs0eEjcDnkihL_g-GqvzCMA-t4JiUiXb_yM1dr67fUgx5k9EIxiFGtMS1IlYWgdlhG1IpWkOnrIH3XBdKtBjp8VrGW0WyO3TaZp40MRUBWKDCLP82s8Buf2phjHUp7zWV9x4Sk8E2HBWkDVc_KE5GqXIfkjqCn9mwZj6G8z663nSknpoU/w640-h426/DSC_0210.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjARg1CQQF-fVMetK-7ZY5V4mEN6CW_fAL0I9GUEudqS3TToPMBCsPZxrB0vhRTXKKkUyIi2Xn1HuiMsfFrkOVHzrZLIqSVVV7oJ52d_jxIwn6-r0sgTdQCOXAUDi0ssH97jYXlXFlGQT0wxe-qeVHmeUpdqAe_la5zOdnTQxMobYl_wb2eVnIjbR0EvDg/s6000/DSC_0218.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjARg1CQQF-fVMetK-7ZY5V4mEN6CW_fAL0I9GUEudqS3TToPMBCsPZxrB0vhRTXKKkUyIi2Xn1HuiMsfFrkOVHzrZLIqSVVV7oJ52d_jxIwn6-r0sgTdQCOXAUDi0ssH97jYXlXFlGQT0wxe-qeVHmeUpdqAe_la5zOdnTQxMobYl_wb2eVnIjbR0EvDg/w640-h426/DSC_0218.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimJ2vkjtqj4KCbq_NOiU7A46-3zYBP-WSvgApYZy2QoUqT2vWOPQ4Rg4RfL8qpKUMQAUxwrK_u61F6aIg5WvaSLaDpz1TO9a6DpQkVJONM3IK2qydfXjfnvY8_ee7OkRCC0c3X6EkYoggbDLqOGUKZcWud2zaoSAyCQNfrWg5IKnGFpxeWICk1HQcXuJY/s6000/DSC_0209.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimJ2vkjtqj4KCbq_NOiU7A46-3zYBP-WSvgApYZy2QoUqT2vWOPQ4Rg4RfL8qpKUMQAUxwrK_u61F6aIg5WvaSLaDpz1TO9a6DpQkVJONM3IK2qydfXjfnvY8_ee7OkRCC0c3X6EkYoggbDLqOGUKZcWud2zaoSAyCQNfrWg5IKnGFpxeWICk1HQcXuJY/w640-h426/DSC_0209.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0j_jE3W2nGkfHx0SqOd5tpCtRgzVUXbNZMJTZ-mrlIFj-UfOEF6I62ruFaI5aIE7-8PKqS_RIcF6hL_8PuOITqScaA57oInAZJU63ErmMejM0-hCAkojjuOydLR4lWoGyqcYbk18qHXMSYTVp3AKRQAR7K0NYXKTXz5q9XhVBqlq8h_TmGwCO4ekoQUc/s6000/DSC_0220.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0j_jE3W2nGkfHx0SqOd5tpCtRgzVUXbNZMJTZ-mrlIFj-UfOEF6I62ruFaI5aIE7-8PKqS_RIcF6hL_8PuOITqScaA57oInAZJU63ErmMejM0-hCAkojjuOydLR4lWoGyqcYbk18qHXMSYTVp3AKRQAR7K0NYXKTXz5q9XhVBqlq8h_TmGwCO4ekoQUc/w640-h426/DSC_0220.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">
</span></p><figure style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1">
<figure>
<figcaption>Listen to me pray these words over you</figcaption>
<audio controls="" src="https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=11w3DJZyBCD-1l9HYaBCTfS-AxI2-xTAC&export=download" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
</figure>
<style>figure {margin: 0;} </style><figure style="text-align: left;"><br /></figure></span></figure><p></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2"><i>For those feeling a bit left behind, lost, or rejected</i></span></p><p class="p2"><span class="s2"><br /></span></p><p class="p2"><span class="s2">O God,</span></p><p class="p2"><span class="s2">Friend of the waifs and strays and ragamuffins,</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">Meet us today in the pain of rejection,</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">In the shame of neediness,</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">In the wounding words,</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">Especially those in the mouths of those called to comfort,</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">And those committed to heal.</span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">Some of us bring you such a pauperly offering, but the best and only one we have:</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">Hearts bruised and battered</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">Yet still beating,</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">Still taking a beating,</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">Turned away, turned against, turned aside.</span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">Thank You, my Rock and my Redeemer.</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">You never reject those who come to You in faith.</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">You welcome and do not shame our neediness.</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">When You speak wounding words,</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">They are the wounds of a surgeon's scalpel,</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">Precisely aimed at mending and restoring.</span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">You are able to heal broken hearts.</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">You deal tenderly with crushed spirits and bruised souls.</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">You never turn away, turn against, turn aside from</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">Those You rescued through the blood of Your Son.</span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">You call the worthless worthy,</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">The helpless, graced,</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">The cast off, cherished.</span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">O God of the waifs and strays and ragamuffins,</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">Make the felt consolation of Your intimate companionship</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">As strong and sweet as a cuppa comfort.</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">Bring to our hearts and minds songs and verses</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">Best suited to the moment of need.</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">Open the ears of our hearts to hear your love song</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">Over us, the waifs and strays and ragamuffins</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">(But your waifs and strays and ragamuffins).</span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">I ask this in the name of Jesus the Savior,</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">Who came gladly into our shabby poverty,</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">That He might make us princes and princesses</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">In the kingdom of His Father.</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2">Amen.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> </div><br /> tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-40251781140386072282023-08-14T16:29:00.002-05:002023-08-14T16:29:50.688-05:00Elisabeth Elliot: A Life, by Lucy S. R. Austen {A Book Review}<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhObPuinEn1hWIN0Lwk2mP-U0SzHLQr8UrTCd40VJXWJxrTHQklozZ6cTi_YAhzYzzxShiMwwHlqmRvBapMa8G0MMXn3Y1ZiYUufm_jsE3jUrTYwpG4xq2o4VwWXInJlZ6hqe6goa6azisNB8lhHomJhfjnD5mL1x94_7cRIdYeTSE7KTjC5pbljJK9DT4/s3024/IMG_5934.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Hardcover book in front of cream throw pillows: the book is Elisabeth Elliot: A Life, by Lucy S. R. Austen. On the cover is a black and white photo of Elisabeth Elliot. Author’s name and “a life” are in white all caps. Elisabeth’s name is larger, italicized, and embossed in gold." border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhObPuinEn1hWIN0Lwk2mP-U0SzHLQr8UrTCd40VJXWJxrTHQklozZ6cTi_YAhzYzzxShiMwwHlqmRvBapMa8G0MMXn3Y1ZiYUufm_jsE3jUrTYwpG4xq2o4VwWXInJlZ6hqe6goa6azisNB8lhHomJhfjnD5mL1x94_7cRIdYeTSE7KTjC5pbljJK9DT4/w640-h640/IMG_5934.HEIC" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">In</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://a.co/d/7FV5Dw3" target="_blank">Elisabeth Elliot: A Life</a></i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">, Lucy S. R. Austen has crafted a meticulously researched literary biography of one of the most influential women in twentieth-century Christian history. In describing it as a literary biography, I meant two things: that it paid particular attention to the formation, values, and sustenance of Elisabeth Elliot the writer; and that the biography itself consisted of beautiful and polished literary prose, not unlike what readers might expect from Iain Murray or David McCullough. This style was a pleasure to read and also contributed to the nuanced, complex portrayal of a nuanced, complex woman. Austen’s love, compassion, and respect for her subject shone through, even as she did not gloss over inconsistencies, generational sins, and personal blindspots.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">One of my favorite themes Austen brings out from Elisabeth’s life was her writerly bent, beginning in childhood and blossoming at Wheaton College. Long before she wrote professionally, for seemingly all of her life, in fact, Elisabeth metabolized life through words on paper. She poured out and tried to make sense of circumstances and feelings primarily before God and in her journals, far more than she seemed to have done with close family and friends. Even during her young adult years as a missionary in Ecuador, another missionary told his wife “‘how he was impressed that Betty’s gifts tended more toward intellectual pursuits than to personal ministry’ and that he was beginning to pray for a ‘writing ministry’ for Betty” (203). As Providence would have it, that missionary’s death with Elisabeth’s husband Jim, when both men were relative newlyweds, became the catalyst for Elisabeth’s vocation to begin to shift toward writing and, secondarily, speaking at Christian events.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Austen described the genesis of many of Elisabeth’s books, including two I have known of and not yet read and several unknown to me until now. She let Elisabeth tell, in excerpts from letters and books, her own philosophy of biography and her values as a writer. Elisabeth longed deeply to see truly and convey to the reader what she saw. Throughout her life, she pursued a determined quest for truth and commitment to live accordingly, even if that meant contradicting one’s prior experience, writing, or teaching. Like most writers, Elliot fought recurrent battles with imposter syndrome, wondering what audacity gave her the idea that she had anything to say worth reading and whether she would ever find the right words to reach her readers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In one of my favorite passages, Austen wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Her talks were drawn from the things she had been wrestling with in her own thinking. At the [Wheaton College annual writers’] conference she spoke on “Writing as Personal Discovery,” arguing that we can only write with integrity about what we have learned through experience. The writer’s task is to faithfully portray the things she has seen. This requires a posture of uncertainty and active searching in order to be <i>able</i> to see. It requires openness to change—it will mean that “we don’t think the same way that we thought last year”—and to messiness. The psalmist, she pointed out, says in Psalm 37 not to fret, and then writes other psalms that are “just one long fret.” And it requires a commitment to excellence in the craft of writing: good writing can be trusted “to give form to…truth,” but “bad writing is a lie.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In contrast to this vision, Elliot said, much of what is called Christian writing begins from the assumption that the writer’s job is to expound the right doctrine, win adherents to the cause, create certainty, prevent change, preserve tidiness. The result, she suggested, is not art but propaganda: “It is the search for truth which gives rise to creativity.” “I believe one of the reasons for the lack of really true Christian art is first of all that we start with the answers. We begin with the cheerful assurance that we know the truth and so the search that is the basis of art is thwarted” (392-393). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">To my mind, Austen honored Elisabeth’s aesthetic and biographical values faithfully in this fine volume.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Also through Elliot’s own words, I saw her lifelong struggle with the introversion that made her the observant, thoughtful writer she was but was often not socially acceptable (or even considered sinful) in the evangelical milieu in which Elliot worked. Austen made note of this struggle with gentle compassion and more understanding of various temperaments than perhaps Elliot had. Austen’s own reserved, introspective style suits her subject in this regard.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Along similar lines, Austen chronicled what Elisabeth was reading (as mentioned in journals and letters) at frequent intervals throughout her life. These lists demonstrated shifts and expansions in thinking over the decades and what ideas informed Elliot’s writings. A reader could build a lifetime reading list from the books mentioned in this biography and likely not be able to finish. The breadth of authors and content surprised me, despite my long familiarity with Elisabeth’s work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">This book held other surprises too. I had not realized how greatly her paradigms shifted on matters such as dating and courtship or liturgical worship. The progressive views on certain areas of morality and ethics she articulated in correspondence also raised my eyebrows and seemed likely to delight some readers and dismay others. Her deep and abiding friendship with her younger brother Tom was a bright and happy surprise. On a lighter note, her <i>frequent </i>and <i><u>emphatic</u></i> use of italics and underlining in her private correspondence and notes just <u>tickled</u><i> </i>my funny bone. I could clearly hear her voice in my ear as I read those passages.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The most striking and meaningful insight I received was the depth, diversity, and duration of Elisabeth’s suffering. In no way was her sorrow concentrated in her bereavements of her first two husbands. In fact, it seemed to me that the only periods of her adult life in which happiness prevailed were her marriage to Jim and perhaps her early years back in the United States, when she lived in New Hampshire with her daughter Valerie and another former missionary, her friend Van (Eleanor Vandevort). Many times Elisabeth’s trials brought tears to my eyes. It saddened me that she endured so much for so long.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">One of those difficult sections to read described Elisabeth’s growing awareness of what would be diagnosed as Alzheimer’s dementia, an illness I have witnessed in more than one close relative. Elisabeth Elliot had a dazzling intellect, a vibrant love of reading and learning, a sharp wit, and a practically unmatched gift for articulate, thoughtful Christian writing. Many of the lifestyle habits contemporary medicine has advised for Alzheimer’s prevention were consistently part of Elisabeth’s disciplined life. For her to lose the life of the mind must have been like dying while she yet lived. This was heartbreaking to read but only increased my respect and empathy for her.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">And yet—the deepest waters and hottest fires she passed through enabled her to speak on and into suffering with authority and compassion. I believed Elisabeth when she addressed the topic of affliction because I knew she spoke from experience. When I have needed help in my own trials and heartbreak, I have wanted someone like Elisabeth (or Joni Tada, Amy Carmichael, Vaneetha Risner…), who endured hard things with grace; airbrushed, glossy celebrity Christianity has offered no cool water to soothe those in the furnace of affliction. Thanks be to God for those who have persevered.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Elliot clearly experienced doubts and changes of convictions over the years, but she never abandoned faith in God and in the Bible. Many earthly things were shaken, but the foundation of her life was the everlasting love of God upon her and the everlasting arms of God beneath her; therefore, her foundation held firm.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">This biography provided a long, thoughtful read that amply repaid the investment of time and attention. It was not a book for those who have placed Elisabeth Elliot on an idealized pedestal and committed to keeping her there. The real woman, with all her complexities and contradictions, was much more interesting than the ideal, and seeing her humanity and need to grow and change through this book pointed me back to the Savior she loved and served. Her legacy has always been about His faithfulness, not her own.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The only thing I wished to add to Austen’s biography was an audiobook version. Not everyone could read a book of this length; I thought especially of those suffering profoundly, such as those living with chronic illness and disability that might make reading difficult but Elisabeth’s testimony needful. Perhaps one will come about if reader demand makes it feasible for Crossway to undertake? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Eight years ago, Elisabeth Elliot Leitch Gren took her place in the cloud of those witnesses whose races were finished, and finished in faith. Along with them, her life testified that Jesus was (and is) better than anyone or anything else; that Jesus was (and is) worthy of our full and glad surrender; and that persevering faith was (and is) possible for those who fix their eyes on Him and on the invisible, eternal truth of Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: currentcolor currentcolor windowtext; border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: medium medium 3pt; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The embedded link above is an Amazon affiliate link. It will yield me a small commission at no extra cost to you. To purchase directly from the not-for-profit publisher Crossway, visit the website <a href="http://www.crossway.org/" style="color: #954f72;">www.crossway.org</a>. The listing for this book is here: <a href="https://www.crossway.org/books/elisabeth-elliot-hcj/" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.crossway.org/books/elisabeth-elliot-hcj/</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Crossway+ members receive 30% off the retail price and a PDF copy with each hardcover purchased.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-88185802057231253802023-08-07T01:30:00.589-05:002023-08-19T16:05:40.970-05:00Hopeful Thirteen {A Blogiversary Post}<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf49_mIW0CldPb533lLVirw7Jsho_I8DJZTOpn4uBxeGT4MG4LNZIdj8lnlj59XLvGCnonLmoqYy3aZ9-2_stT-HkTwmQqE3vKZc_EqIelXvlvScFzuW-HpDElLJByHtB1DaFYddGb8HS7mKLCE-lRmKRyZYvefNINKPOXueqtcFUKbedmH6ZuShLgItM/s6000/DSC_0164.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf49_mIW0CldPb533lLVirw7Jsho_I8DJZTOpn4uBxeGT4MG4LNZIdj8lnlj59XLvGCnonLmoqYy3aZ9-2_stT-HkTwmQqE3vKZc_EqIelXvlvScFzuW-HpDElLJByHtB1DaFYddGb8HS7mKLCE-lRmKRyZYvefNINKPOXueqtcFUKbedmH6ZuShLgItM/w640-h426/DSC_0164.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Giant yellow swallowtail on unidentified plant, July 2023</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><p></p><figure>
<figcaption>Listen to me read the audio file</figcaption>
<audio controls="" src="https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1fFPqeYcQhxmiRrAx_HCmMJYRDIfjNT-g&export=download" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
</figure>
<style>figure {margin: 0;} </style><div><br /></div><div><i>If the player isn’t working in your browser and you’d like to listen, here is the link to the audio</i>:</div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fFPqeYcQhxmiRrAx_HCmMJYRDIfjNT-g/view?usp=drivesdk">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fFPqeYcQhxmiRrAx_HCmMJYRDIfjNT-g/view?usp=drivesdk</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
In the summer of 2010, I was working my way back to full strength after sinus surgery that spring. Although I had received a lupus (SLE) diagnosis 8 years prior, my illness had been quite stable, with medication and lifestyle adjustments, for more than 5 years. Prior to surgery, the Ebony Dog and I walked 3 1/2 miles most days, and Pilates and strength training were added several days a week. I learned more about nutrition and followed a healthier diet than most Americans, with lots of produce, lean protein, and whole grains and not a lot of sugar.. Amore and I had both worked hard to find a rhythm that worked for my illness, and he worked hard providing for us. <p></p><p>Surgery has extra difficulties for autoimmune patients, so we weren’t surprised that recovery was slower than the doctor promised. Lab tests several weeks after surgery showed that I was still mildly anemic, but otherwise things seemed fine.</p><p>In July 2010, the day we departed for a stay with Amore’s parents due to a surgery for his father, I felt more tired, almost out of breath. On the drive down, my voice seemed oddly hoarse as I read aloud. The elastic around my ribs hurt. The seatbelt felt too tight. How odd.</p><p>Once we were settled in the home of my in-laws, I couldn’t seem to recover from the five-hour drive. I was so tired. As much as possible, I rested and read, but even sleep proved difficult. And what was that pressure on my chest?</p><p>(Aside: Yes, we should have visited urgent care or the emergency room. Chest pain is not a “wait and see” medical symptom. We were away from home for my father-in-law’s cardiac bypass surgery; this was not supposed to be about me. And, truth be told, I was more anxious about going to the emergency room, and in a different city, than I was about waiting out the pain and trying to breathe. But if you have new chest pain, please do the smart thing and urgently seek medical care.)</p><p>My father-in-law’s surgery was successful, but he had a long road ahead to full recovery. When our stay was over, we passed the support baton to one of my husband’s sisters. I was truly convinced I would feel better when we were back home and away from the stress and worry over Amore’s dad.</p><p>🦋</p><p>But I didn’t. The fatigue was so severe that unloading the dishwasher was too strenuous to do all at once. If I took a shower, I needed someone else in the house in case I passed out. My chest hurt so much that I could hardly breathe unless I lay down on my side. So I lay on my side on the sofa all day, for days and weeks and months.</p><p>As soon as we returned, I scheduled appointments with my sinus surgeon, asthma doctor, and rheumatologist. Perhaps after sinus surgery upper respiratory infections looked like this? Perhaps I only needed another course of antibiotics?</p><p>I did need a round of antibiotics, and my asthma did require a new inhaler, but that didn’t resolve the symptoms. The rheumatologist sent me for a series of scary, expensive tests on my heart and lungs. He was afraid the membrane around my heart was inflamed, so he ordered a month of bedrest and increased steroids and told me not to leave home except for medical care.</p><p>Driving was beyond my strength, and Amore did not have remote or flexible work, so my mom drove me about to all these appointments and brought her work to my living room when she could, so I wouldn’t be scared, in pain, and alone.</p><p>Eventually all serious explanations for my symptoms were ruled out, and it was determined that my lupus was flaring and causing painful inflammation of the cartilage connecting the ribcage and sternum (“costochondritis”). In other words, “It’s not serious, just painful.” The doctor told me I could resume normal activities, but there remained that pesky problem of my chest hurting too much to breathe when I was upright.</p><p>After 6 or 7 months, we finally found a medication to manage the pain safely. I could have wept with relief that first morning after the new medicine. For the first time in months, my first conscious thought of the day wasn't chest pain. I had slept through the night. By that time, however, other pain issues had arisen due to the prolonged forced inactivity. It took years to work through the fallen row of dominos and set a substantial part of them upright again. Not all losses have been recovered even 13 years later.</p><p>🦋</p><p>There have been unexpectedly good and gracious enlargements of my capacity at times, such as a voyage to Alaska with my parents and husband and a journey to Virginia for the wedding of a young lady I love dearly. The Lord has given me several years of enough stability to assist my parents with time, meals, and company. I now sit with my mom in her living room as she sat with me so many times. Last week the Lord enabled me to walk a whole mile in a state park with my husband. Two days in a row. This is a far cry from where I was before lupus or before 2010, but it is the farthest I have walked at once (without paying for it later in post-exertional malaise) in a very long time. The last few times we’ve been to the arboretum, we have also been able to do without a wheelchair for me. I don’t know whether or how long this will last, but I receive it as a good gift from a loving God and give thanks to Him.</p><p>There have also been expected and unexpected brokenness, trials, and sorrows. The last 13 years have held far more funerals than weddings. Three of our four parents have suffered the long farewell of dementia. My mother is still suffering it. We lost Amore’s oldest sister to cancer. Many more surgeries and two rounds of cancer have added complications to my own medical history. Amore has changed jobs three times. Family members have faced life-changing diagnoses and financial hardships. My church has endured an astonishing amount of tumult and loss.</p><p>Oh, yes, and there’s this apparently never-ending pandemic that has required a few changes to our lives.</p><p>So far, there is no “back to normal” for families like ours, with immunocompromise, long COVID, and other high-risk conditions. Amore and I are still very much isolated in our tiny village of four with my parents. We are very grateful for the many circumstances that allow us to do that, even though we miss things about “before” life. We continue to seek the Lord and seek to steward health, illness, duty, and opportunity one next step at a time. I don’t know whether or how long this will last, but I receive it, too, as a good gift from a loving God and give thanks to Him.</p><p>Does that sound strange to you? Life's plot twists don't always feel like good gifts from a loving God, do they? They may come to us wrapped in sandpaper and tied with barbed wire instead of golden ribbon. For those who brave the bloodied hands and tear-stained cheeks, however, trials offer the Christian treasure that cannot be attained any other way.</p><p>Only those who mourn know the divine blessing of God's comfort. Only the weak know the sufficient power of God's strength. Broken hearts are uniquely able to receive God's nearness. Knowing Christ in the communion of His suffering (Philippians 3) requires suffering ourselves and experiencing the astonishing grace of His nearness in the midst of it. Suffering can bless us by chiseling our character into greater likeness to Christ.</p><p>"Good" isn't always happy or fun. Sometimes it is holy and soul-growing. It is good and worthy of our gratitude when we receive it as one means of knowing the Triune God more deeply.</p><p>🦋</p><p>My heart breaks for the tens of millions suffering prolonged illness, uncertainty, medical fatigue, inability to find treatment, financial hardships, isolation, and fear from the tsunami of new chronic illness the last three and a half years. And suffering those same afflictions from flaring chronic illnesses. They never seem to stop surprising us with new party tricks, do they? I have drunk from the bitter cup of dreams crushed and youth upended due to unexpected health collapse. If that is you, whatever the nature and cause of your illness (if you even know), please hear this:</p><p>You are not invisible to me or to God.</p><p>Your life matters. You are worthy of care and support. God loves you.</p><p>God hears and answers honest prayers. He doesn’t always answer yes, but He always answers. Call on Him.</p><p>Please keep going. You never know when the sun will peek out again and your life will turn for the better. However bleak things seem in this moment, if you are in Christ, this is not the end of your story. All the afflictions of today are actively at work producing the eternal weight of glory ahead of you.</p><p>🦋</p><p>One gift the Lord has given to sweeten my cup the last 13 years has been this place. Near the end of that first month on the sofa in pain, unable even to care for myself fully, Amore told me it was time to start a blog. He had decided I needed to write my way through whatever was going on. He helped me set it up, and this website was born.</p><p>To celebrate 13 years of writing here (and perhaps, for a few of you, 13 years of reading), I am retelling the story of my health journey during that time and leaving you with five things the Lord has taught me in the peaks and valleys of this quarter of my life.</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>No matter how isolated, alienated, and exiled you or I might feel, no weakness, illness, or disability can alienate or exile us from God. If we have thrown ourselves at the feet of His throne of grace to receive mercy and forgiveness through the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ, then nothing can separate us from His love. Even the humans who love us most will reach the limits of their compassion and energy, but there is no compassion fatigue in the Triune God. The tinuviel paraphrase of Hebrews 13:5b says, “for He [God] has said and not changed His mind: ‘I will never ever leave you without support, nor will I ever ever desert you in distress.’” He promises that He will never, never, never, never leave His people in the lurch.</li><li>Hope is not a feeling of optimism. Hope is not dependent on a happy change in circumstance. Hope is not incompatible with sorrow and grief. Hope is eager expectation born out of confidence in the promises, person, and purposes of God. Jesus our forerunner has dropped the anchor of our hope in the Most Holy Place of God’s presence (Hebrews 6:13-20). With Him securing it, nothing can uproot it, no matter how hot the flame, how fierce the wind, or how intense the storm. God cannot lie. He will not let go of us. He will hold us fast. Hold fast to hope. Hold fast to His promises. Hold fast to Him who holds fast to you. And if you can’t hold fast, lean in. He can hold on tight enough for the both of you.</li><li>I am weaker and less in control of my life than I ever really thought, and Christ in me is stronger than I ever really believed. His strength, goodness, and love, even when I have least felt the consolation of His presence, have kept me putting one foot in front of the other. He is the reason I have not abandoned the faith. The weaker I am, the stronger He is, and His grace really is sufficient (2 Corinthians 12:7-10).</li><li>“Acceptance with joy” is a lifelong lesson. When I think I have learned it, a bend in the track reveals more mountain to climb. And that’s ok. Anything is a blessing which makes us pray, as Spurgeon wrote. Anything is a blessing which reminds me of my dependence on God. The “hard <i>eucharisteos</i>” (things for which we struggle to thank God) are material for sacrifice. He transforms them when we offer them, with ourselves and our tears and our inability to accept them with a grateful heart, to Him.</li><li>Finally, don’t underestimate the providential grace of God, which can create real friendships out of zeroes and ones, pixels and screens. I cannot thank Him enough for the kindred spirits He has brought me from across miles, oceans, and continents. You know who you are. Thank you for reading and interacting. Thank you for extending kindness to this poor bell sheep, whether I could reciprocate properly or not.</li></ul><div><br /></div><div>Further up and farther in! Courage, dear hearts.</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-44305642228351824962023-07-29T16:10:00.001-05:002023-10-03T14:40:34.905-05:00The LORD Is Peace
<figure >
<figcaption>Listen to me read this post:</figcaption>
<audio controls
src="https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1KDq9tRhT-euys5sPb3Zn8DnkvW_q04mC&export=download" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
</figure>
<style>figure {margin: 0;} </style>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimanFYVYP_lxkaoMFAHnmT6YkZ9Gt6BhU12RMwCpBY0Z1lRtPQUMxbPR_0aOUloiWzyJuvUWqhEYkT_e1LCsM2gY_g6zz4qUgOH-4A5tj6J2yTLtTNkaY9b90jVHEAjpfSU0IEU9GpGSVJQZQocb_nK4e2Q5L-tnY1eA4Jc_zfe3MC36SrldpcvJNr8wU/s4032/IMG_6547.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimanFYVYP_lxkaoMFAHnmT6YkZ9Gt6BhU12RMwCpBY0Z1lRtPQUMxbPR_0aOUloiWzyJuvUWqhEYkT_e1LCsM2gY_g6zz4qUgOH-4A5tj6J2yTLtTNkaY9b90jVHEAjpfSU0IEU9GpGSVJQZQocb_nK4e2Q5L-tnY1eA4Jc_zfe3MC36SrldpcvJNr8wU/w640-h480/IMG_6547.HEIC" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lake Tawakoni from the southern shore</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb2LgKSzyNNPPkZl1eYVnnLVBUrgtr-Y017uAIZ3cciYMI0_O-PfaNawPfv6X7627bJHxIsnLbrak5kQ1vqMlaCm13dToqJ66fMCNfUDwECL19Mr_HzFZyli2EFmuNU-UgIEHS9K8hzMVL1dLNq6nEk0pY4NWyU_DjZVb0MZUFP2TRmA8WMdjIVIM_VwU/s4032/IMG_6558.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb2LgKSzyNNPPkZl1eYVnnLVBUrgtr-Y017uAIZ3cciYMI0_O-PfaNawPfv6X7627bJHxIsnLbrak5kQ1vqMlaCm13dToqJ66fMCNfUDwECL19Mr_HzFZyli2EFmuNU-UgIEHS9K8hzMVL1dLNq6nEk0pY4NWyU_DjZVb0MZUFP2TRmA8WMdjIVIM_VwU/w480-h640/IMG_6558.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A path through tall trees in Lake Tawakoni State Park</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-ko_1y49F_Nj_ph4ytWGpjc7eyq3Eyj_aB4-HNuREZEvK_FkE1u1zhShvx_TbWl29n9QXWGuq8WtdUFzgTvkOQUjBeFuqlLZSmWRKVXc59fayU_ZoY92rT2lD9zNqL4fInn7_IEOSn-c5gwGujsUDAP5t7npxRWsyPRaBJzADsppkLaC9ekV9xhqfH0s/s4032/IMG_6559.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-ko_1y49F_Nj_ph4ytWGpjc7eyq3Eyj_aB4-HNuREZEvK_FkE1u1zhShvx_TbWl29n9QXWGuq8WtdUFzgTvkOQUjBeFuqlLZSmWRKVXc59fayU_ZoY92rT2lD9zNqL4fInn7_IEOSn-c5gwGujsUDAP5t7npxRWsyPRaBJzADsppkLaC9ekV9xhqfH0s/w640-h480/IMG_6559.HEIC" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Treetops and sky, Lake Tawakoni State Park</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-0V-2UY0-uTgSjs922Mwumh6I4dy7blGLb08yXeZBNeGpyan6Mv9sileo3GMbwraiMeQTB_BXeTlQ2qAO8b9-E3_KpnAmpvnjvSJz45o528HX3ZOVMe4IMRM-tM1WI8z0GAS0e9WYZZK95bSBoz6Bd9nY4XexI1P8r71TaG8Toxx3gYbI8WL45tR02qs/s4032/IMG_6565.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-0V-2UY0-uTgSjs922Mwumh6I4dy7blGLb08yXeZBNeGpyan6Mv9sileo3GMbwraiMeQTB_BXeTlQ2qAO8b9-E3_KpnAmpvnjvSJz45o528HX3ZOVMe4IMRM-tM1WI8z0GAS0e9WYZZK95bSBoz6Bd9nY4XexI1P8r71TaG8Toxx3gYbI8WL45tR02qs/w480-h640/IMG_6565.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of Lake Tawakoni, from the southwestern shore on a clear day</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The susurration of trees and lapping of waves</p><p>Whisper in antiphon:</p><p>YAHWEH Shalom,</p><p>YAHWEH Shalom,</p><p>The Lord is peace,</p><p>The Lord strengthens His people with peace.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_-7mb7amLk9n_0OmZ881d3_GCD9leD0Vikr69d3kT2fnbDY9IsRhr0sTw-S_YUeXs2pU7i0yqyw7h_p0sg4v7cgWYZ7tIUAvg_aZdvudu-RyzCjqBFpgnBwyXWlmjIL4-yITU6Vg1qfnVJn1G2W4mZ7qQuyky53F2fQUCJX5qeRqI-QOWT4ekHRern0s/s6000/DSC_0931.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="bright yellow sunflower, fully open, angled to upper right of frame" border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_-7mb7amLk9n_0OmZ881d3_GCD9leD0Vikr69d3kT2fnbDY9IsRhr0sTw-S_YUeXs2pU7i0yqyw7h_p0sg4v7cgWYZ7tIUAvg_aZdvudu-RyzCjqBFpgnBwyXWlmjIL4-yITU6Vg1qfnVJn1G2W4mZ7qQuyky53F2fQUCJX5qeRqI-QOWT4ekHRern0s/w640-h426/DSC_0931.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyLf9JBBsBGgXaQkUWZ5z7pEGzD4S9Zkgl-bwDnrREI9pLzut994mnZrmDEIitFRtSGEB9jL6jGS2WfL6TMsvj3D0We-QTPAd1yvzgXYz4vrmWNXJyFMXIEkipSpgmJ2fah1bKQhWcW3XWOVLYuMv3iuXS53OqGYlzjJ2xDkqce5GjD3v_ju0J-TQ-1I8/s6000/DSC_0660.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="a honeybee crawling around the center of a large yellow sunflower that faces left" border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyLf9JBBsBGgXaQkUWZ5z7pEGzD4S9Zkgl-bwDnrREI9pLzut994mnZrmDEIitFRtSGEB9jL6jGS2WfL6TMsvj3D0We-QTPAd1yvzgXYz4vrmWNXJyFMXIEkipSpgmJ2fah1bKQhWcW3XWOVLYuMv3iuXS53OqGYlzjJ2xDkqce5GjD3v_ju0J-TQ-1I8/w640-h426/DSC_0660.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>The sunflowers lean forward,</p><p>In eager expectation awaiting in hope </p><p>The Great Day of the rising</p><p>Of the Sun of Righteousness</p><p>With healing in His wings.</p><p>(Come soon, Lord Jesus.)</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5hbgymDfVM8BKKsSZQ9I-rk1E7BwUGMOpZdEJShJLud-IJIXyBsUvrQ8fXxAI-PeqJHHP5HkET9ocgRx3wPY92-k_WC9GsviNOtNIYDvzRKYdBHU6tML1idsFL-lzUGuDUaUI8m2x1NzD8aqFOz5VEHYvzXqrR2XLx8RZZQVL_VNeRfo80q5TdgpUAuU/s6000/DSC_0334.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5hbgymDfVM8BKKsSZQ9I-rk1E7BwUGMOpZdEJShJLud-IJIXyBsUvrQ8fXxAI-PeqJHHP5HkET9ocgRx3wPY92-k_WC9GsviNOtNIYDvzRKYdBHU6tML1idsFL-lzUGuDUaUI8m2x1NzD8aqFOz5VEHYvzXqrR2XLx8RZZQVL_VNeRfo80q5TdgpUAuU/w640-h426/DSC_0334.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Osprey perched in bare tree branches</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p>The osprey's plaintive cry</p><p>Laments the groaning bondage of creation now.</p><p>The buzzards dance attendance on the last enemy,</p><p>Mortally wounded, defanged,</p><p>Yet still destroying in death's death throes.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUiA_1PUcNfR0WjYvS3GaVNvj42nj4vDKQAPxLD_Ksg5Bfd_6rY8d1bpvpBmX3bxcDYEt1LSQiHCDQrsLZWXZ96bDKupPrjmInkGm8UJ-L-zm3Mzr43SyPYcwlPJwUtYDH7e7FeHuR6my2M8ndRzMryl0ZAGGjyYoCcVuYAZbS4v35EaPV4XbSE5AKO2Y/s6000/DSC_0218.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUiA_1PUcNfR0WjYvS3GaVNvj42nj4vDKQAPxLD_Ksg5Bfd_6rY8d1bpvpBmX3bxcDYEt1LSQiHCDQrsLZWXZ96bDKupPrjmInkGm8UJ-L-zm3Mzr43SyPYcwlPJwUtYDH7e7FeHuR6my2M8ndRzMryl0ZAGGjyYoCcVuYAZbS4v35EaPV4XbSE5AKO2Y/w640-h426/DSC_0218.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black and white warbler foraging for insects</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh02HU59vALdnycM1zLTR6t2ItDPx5bZQxwkANj7txsbnSWjyPPzXY2zw73qgIvlcc1WDjRmsjA-0tFYoqErcSkJVeUat6tgvmvF5ht5bv0RO0hZIKFB0hx-_iptMi-UWRPt0_TQaYsylUYhRc2YglOmIMnvt2XtS59mfywYp_f3yik9bwXOGdbNaqQPbI/s6000/DSC_0257.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh02HU59vALdnycM1zLTR6t2ItDPx5bZQxwkANj7txsbnSWjyPPzXY2zw73qgIvlcc1WDjRmsjA-0tFYoqErcSkJVeUat6tgvmvF5ht5bv0RO0hZIKFB0hx-_iptMi-UWRPt0_TQaYsylUYhRc2YglOmIMnvt2XtS59mfywYp_f3yik9bwXOGdbNaqQPbI/w640-h426/DSC_0257.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Painted bunting in tree branch</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicKmpnoZRZf7QGzHkpPuYqs1UhPRDQmFA9BygnvROpSkUX3-RXrcvPhdLRoAV7Svr0Rgx3F8gQvoAucbFL1oA-oa9wMPa20vt9apyih7q0bi9gXbPf7ncotAir-29mzoR-U-_skVuqEY-Fa5m7UtVLuY_lBg5k9ZjeUGxYQ1uhemiLLcvDiEaEqbKCKrQ/s6000/DSC_0283.JPG"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicKmpnoZRZf7QGzHkpPuYqs1UhPRDQmFA9BygnvROpSkUX3-RXrcvPhdLRoAV7Svr0Rgx3F8gQvoAucbFL1oA-oa9wMPa20vt9apyih7q0bi9gXbPf7ncotAir-29mzoR-U-_skVuqEY-Fa5m7UtVLuY_lBg5k9ZjeUGxYQ1uhemiLLcvDiEaEqbKCKrQ/w640-h426/DSC_0283.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Wordlessly, buntings and warblers, cardinals and wrens</p><p>Intone their unabashed, unceasing melody of hope</p><p>In the not yet:</p><p><br /></p><p>Prayers are heard,</p><p>Promises true,</p><p>Prince of Peace coming;</p><p>The kingdom of this world</p><p>Will become the kingdom of our Lord,</p><p>And He shall reign forever.</p><p>Weeping will pass.</p><p>Joy will come.</p><p><br /></p><p>The rattling cicadas beat time with their wings,</p><p>Counting down the days till deliverance</p><p>From corruption to decay.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpj7dxV9J0dwXwYdA0pne-fCBJOtW5Ap-Kv3P0gB_Lbggp6Ji8g5ADE208dBTxp6YW0U0AqVJKqI78mjXyi4RLXWPFi714Tmrkd9CI7ReIk1R4UFJv54-JRySK0IMSL_ZmwWunNoWwO0qhAMgTuwu4a1X9ATnUkNOUZ2sw6Vf-8vN3BIULoXs1PPXU1Rk/s6000/DSC_0165.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpj7dxV9J0dwXwYdA0pne-fCBJOtW5Ap-Kv3P0gB_Lbggp6Ji8g5ADE208dBTxp6YW0U0AqVJKqI78mjXyi4RLXWPFi714Tmrkd9CI7ReIk1R4UFJv54-JRySK0IMSL_ZmwWunNoWwO0qhAMgTuwu4a1X9ATnUkNOUZ2sw6Vf-8vN3BIULoXs1PPXU1Rk/w640-h426/DSC_0165.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Giant swallowtail butterfly, ventral wings</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_JTFnTzKqtWfFHNfrNlXP_mSsvRSmNnfFRJ_XPVJ6FQ5C6c9cBln_mmw9kTNi8TtvdcponFGOr4_LvSUoHyNgwQrPPT4CyF-pAOdoOAf-BzjDg3mtF3MgMtR83ASwFt7KY3RpOipBxO7vaG-yesaqVQGLoqIbdP8AXQAvE1rXmlnphHLgLJ-pET6syBg/s6000/DSC_0166.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_JTFnTzKqtWfFHNfrNlXP_mSsvRSmNnfFRJ_XPVJ6FQ5C6c9cBln_mmw9kTNi8TtvdcponFGOr4_LvSUoHyNgwQrPPT4CyF-pAOdoOAf-BzjDg3mtF3MgMtR83ASwFt7KY3RpOipBxO7vaG-yesaqVQGLoqIbdP8AXQAvE1rXmlnphHLgLJ-pET6syBg/w640-h426/DSC_0166.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Giant swallowtail, dorsal wing</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p>The fluttering swallowtail sips nectar,</p><p>So delicately her blooming perch barely moves.</p><p>In her partaking of the cup the Lord has filled,</p><p>She moves on, scattering with fecund prodigality</p><p>Grace for future blooms.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAw5Qakv5IEsSZLfg3-ekcLeY9F_tnwK9LG6H7Vl8NadP9BAIyHnBF_RxwDks7R83I2CXHbQLQZ6TxUQBBhyspXkLX1aWpaA6dlTltkV5t34eK_R6Ux7uPrBz3mNYUhItl54kzk20K-yjuXm-OkFu6ZDgg5buWeFos5Rn7UgvNLvxme1DcMdto5OAuIOw/s6000/DSC_0310.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6000" data-original-width="4000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAw5Qakv5IEsSZLfg3-ekcLeY9F_tnwK9LG6H7Vl8NadP9BAIyHnBF_RxwDks7R83I2CXHbQLQZ6TxUQBBhyspXkLX1aWpaA6dlTltkV5t34eK_R6Ux7uPrBz3mNYUhItl54kzk20K-yjuXm-OkFu6ZDgg5buWeFos5Rn7UgvNLvxme1DcMdto5OAuIOw/w426-h640/DSC_0310.JPG" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trees in deep shade with Lake Tawakoni in background</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9N02WpKP-So44aNDpzTh32iTRSHVhhvHn8W4vmo2bG_kY8mhnfGgSGw40nPSqESFeJVVZ1VbH_T1iVyc5nSgzHvuUNkwBM6aYNzSdEPvGwGBd8j0OlIlGw8g_3fMLzsdLsIIyEkRahZtDG8LJhr9TuJOTVsuEMYIrUiz0FC_B5tOiFivPpF-lKND6G1o/s6000/DSC_0307.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9N02WpKP-So44aNDpzTh32iTRSHVhhvHn8W4vmo2bG_kY8mhnfGgSGw40nPSqESFeJVVZ1VbH_T1iVyc5nSgzHvuUNkwBM6aYNzSdEPvGwGBd8j0OlIlGw8g_3fMLzsdLsIIyEkRahZtDG8LJhr9TuJOTVsuEMYIrUiz0FC_B5tOiFivPpF-lKND6G1o/w640-h426/DSC_0307.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A spider perches upside down in its web, which looks iridescent in the morning light</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ3-NTj2rAvNzym0lpw8guhcE5dmf9XfF8P7nc-xNrEUov7tvdkIv5Muj5JRn5dlRPK097ZQw4QW1BJ4mDM3VUYwmdjVuxgudd-neUEEHFpVY0GSSICNs0wM4rPiwFbAIyFJ2UiZli7hg1wP_j-Fv5QvwCfRHHWIJEQAfgQkp2XtHmOzk2N4THibv1E-M/s6000/DSC_0304.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6000" data-original-width="4000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ3-NTj2rAvNzym0lpw8guhcE5dmf9XfF8P7nc-xNrEUov7tvdkIv5Muj5JRn5dlRPK097ZQw4QW1BJ4mDM3VUYwmdjVuxgudd-neUEEHFpVY0GSSICNs0wM4rPiwFbAIyFJ2UiZli7hg1wP_j-Fv5QvwCfRHHWIJEQAfgQkp2XtHmOzk2N4THibv1E-M/w426-h640/DSC_0304.JPG" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A fawn looks straight at the camera from the shelter of green trees</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p>The trees of the field lift holy hands to heaven,</p><p>Singing for joy before the Lord,</p><p>Before He comes</p><p>Before He comes</p><p>To judge the earth in righteousness.</p><p><br /></p><p>The nations rage;</p><p>The peoples plot and scheme,</p><p>But the susurration of trees and lapping of waves,</p><p>Yet sing, "The LORD is peace."</p>tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-8710302059241018392023-07-17T17:46:00.001-05:002023-08-26T16:31:19.543-05:00A Lament for the Long Haul<p><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">This is one chronic patient's intercession for the tens of millions suffering with Long COVID, whether patients, families, or friends. </span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I am humbled and grateful to make space for the stories of a few of these courageous people. If you live with ME/CFS, POTS, fibromyalgia, or autoimmune disease and see yourself in the following, may the Lord enfold you into the intercession as well. The doves mark section breaks, in the event reading this requires multiple sittings.Courage, dear hearts.</span></i></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGi5wCNZV25pH0aJZqiZwaG3WOi_8qmfSJAXLPvF6km91SIYKdEFiPW9LdS2b5MPJxWeCz4nEpMFwe3Y4NEdlV3zs1Oboq9W7ywH4MyaTxOh8u_UAlrFwQfDcsaPCz2a9pb4VBYc1TIEkt4slhdjV9qPmCJzdw6pPf-R-q6gEZXSoP5LqAgJIFj2rL-ao/s6000/DSC_0837.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="small black and orange butterfly on bright pink petunias" border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGi5wCNZV25pH0aJZqiZwaG3WOi_8qmfSJAXLPvF6km91SIYKdEFiPW9LdS2b5MPJxWeCz4nEpMFwe3Y4NEdlV3zs1Oboq9W7ywH4MyaTxOh8u_UAlrFwQfDcsaPCz2a9pb4VBYc1TIEkt4slhdjV9qPmCJzdw6pPf-R-q6gEZXSoP5LqAgJIFj2rL-ao/w640-h426/DSC_0837.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{777432b9-e459-4a14-af4d-54d053e11440}{165}" paraid="23311802" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.6625px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">
</span></span></p><figure style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.6625px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">
<figcaption>Listen to me pray these words over you</figcaption>
<audio controls="" src="https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1Z8rsszy4YD8Vkm2ngp-S42r717xdkRil&export=download" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
</span></span></figure><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-variant-ligatures: none;"> </span></span><p style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{777432b9-e459-4a14-af4d-54d053e11440}{175}" paraid="365983723" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.6625px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 22.6625px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{777432b9-e459-4a14-af4d-54d053e11440}{179}" paraid="1826178297" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Good Shepherd of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">sheep,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{777432b9-e459-4a14-af4d-54d053e11440}{189}" paraid="1787706676" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Master of the great </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">feast,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{777432b9-e459-4a14-af4d-54d053e11440}{197}" paraid="1212783865" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Lord of the harvest,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{777432b9-e459-4a14-af4d-54d053e11440}{203}" paraid="1860998581" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I worship You.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{777432b9-e459-4a14-af4d-54d053e11440}{209}" paraid="1447325358" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{777432b9-e459-4a14-af4d-54d053e11440}{213}" paraid="363639995" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Today I bring You my burden</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{777432b9-e459-4a14-af4d-54d053e11440}{219}" paraid="1781224565" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">For those suffering over the long haul from the ravages of a pandemic virus.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{777432b9-e459-4a14-af4d-54d053e11440}{225}" paraid="82454866" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Their needs are many</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> too </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">great for the strongest and most influential woman,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{777432b9-e459-4a14-af4d-54d053e11440}{237}" paraid="604015506" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Much less one such as I.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{777432b9-e459-4a14-af4d-54d053e11440}{243}" paraid="2038961808" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{777432b9-e459-4a14-af4d-54d053e11440}{247}" paraid="1710271746" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">All I can do is bear them </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">on</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> my heart to Your throne of grace.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{777432b9-e459-4a14-af4d-54d053e11440}{253}" paraid="1943213774" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">You have mercy and grace to help them in time of need.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{4}" paraid="1308376242" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">And You can sway the hearts of Your people to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">help carry the cross of disability.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{12}" paraid="1565515475" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">If You are willing, </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">You</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> can even heal.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{20}" paraid="367786637" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{24}" paraid="1940415954" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Lord, I bring You the mothers nurturing from the sofa</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{32}" paraid="758350817" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The artists whose creative vision is blurred by brain </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fog</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{42}" paraid="1103246267" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The athletes bound to wheelchair and home</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{50}" paraid="7835794" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The scientists whose bright intellects </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">have been dimmed and dulled</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{60}" paraid="1669444162" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The physicians imprisoned in home o</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">r bed from infections in the line of duty</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{70}" paraid="1159146568" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The milli</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ons</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> slogging through hours of wo</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">rk to earn their bread</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{84}" paraid="1386407951" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Who keep their illness secret for the security of their posts</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{92}" paraid="781193366" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The millions more unable to work at all</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">but refused disability </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">assistance</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{102}" paraid="2004086439" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">And</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">truggling to meet basic survival needs;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{112}" paraid="1874120422" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The children and young people whose</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> promising</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> futures</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">va</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">porized</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{128}" paraid="1204501887" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">When we, their elders, did not shield them from disease, disability, and death</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{134}" paraid="1844553426" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Borne like vapor on the air.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{140}" paraid="302524580" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{144}" paraid="167473346" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I bring You the wife deciding between taking a shower and preparing a meal,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{150}" paraid="656017729" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Both in</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the same day exceeding her </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">capacity</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{163}" paraid="1198009424" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I bring You the mama fighting through </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Long COVID brain fog</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{171}" paraid="55510074" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">To care for her daughter, who received</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{177}" paraid="1605862926" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">A dementia diagnosis at age 19,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{183}" paraid="272478783" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Dementia c</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">aused by COVID.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{191}" paraid="1580318690" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I bring You the sufferers weary of research</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{197}" paraid="1477517073" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">And demoralized by begging for </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">validation, protection,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{205}" paraid="1040199679" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A listening ear and the kindness of under</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">standing.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{213}" paraid="1485365305" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I bring You those traumatized by medical disbelief, dull ears, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">denial.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{221}" paraid="838004368" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{225}" paraid="431575329" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{229}" paraid="686973651" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun EmptyTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span><span class="WACImageContainer NoPadding DragDrop BlobObject SCXW84067770 BCX0" role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; cursor: move; display: inline-block; height: 102px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 2px; transform: rotate(0deg); user-select: text; width: 102px;"><img alt="Dove with solid fill" class="WACImage SCXW84067770 BCX0" src="data:image/png;base64,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" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; border: none; height: 96px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; width: 96px;" unselectable="on" /><span class="WACImageBorder SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; display: block; height: 96px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-wrap: nowrap; top: 0px; transform: rotate(0deg); user-select: text; width: 96px;"></span></span><span class="TextRun EmptyTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{234}" paraid="223234979" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{238}" paraid="96828849" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I mourn these broken bodies and damaged futures.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{244}" paraid="763798067" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I lament our guilt, our culpability</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{cfcf2644-a5fa-4643-8e16-4ccc70f349ff}{250}" paraid="155782959" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">As a church and as a society.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{1}" paraid="1420657087" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Our sins are many and grievous.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{7}" paraid="384679581" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">We have not loved You with our whole hearts,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{13}" paraid="1901912950" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Nor our neighbo</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">rs as ourselves.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{21}" paraid="1699946539" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I am heartily sorry for </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">these our</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> misdoings.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{34}" paraid="302031931" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Forgive us, Lord. Forgive me, Lord,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{40}" paraid="1865594263" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">For my failures to love these battered bo</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">dies and bruised souls well.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{48}" paraid="904609574" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">They are pe</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">rsons</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> clothed with the inherent dignity of You</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">r</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> image.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{62}" paraid="1185348406" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We have not honored that h</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">umanity</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{70}" paraid="616343470" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">And treated their lives as sacred to You.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{76}" paraid="992805021" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{80}" paraid="371903603" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Awaken Your church to true repentanc</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e—</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{88}" paraid="347511162" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> have not loved our neighbors as ourselve</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s—</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{98}" paraid="1619928388" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">To relinquish exc</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">using our wrongs</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{106}" paraid="1869419002" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">And to love You by loving the least</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{114}" paraid="1836835190" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">What we do to the sick and in prison,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{120}" paraid="135272222" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">We do to You, Lord Christ.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{126}" paraid="700387575" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Have mercy on us for the hardness of our hearts,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{132}" paraid="1490010439" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">O </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Savior of the pierced side.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{140}" paraid="1824204871" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Lift our gaze from our own internec</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ine quarrels</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{148}" paraid="1353952514" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">To the ocean of desperate need all around us.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{154}" paraid="1347818583" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Open our ears to the cries of the tens of millions</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{160}" paraid="1071429967" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Incarcerated</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and alienated</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> by sick bodies and beds of suffering.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{170}" paraid="847597759" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{174}" paraid="1880982254" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{178}" paraid="836551818" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="WACImageGroupContainer SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; display: inline-block; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 99px; min-width: 99px; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><span class="WACImageContainer NoPadding AttachedToBeginning DragDrop SCXW84067770 BCX0" role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; cursor: move; display: inline-block; height: 96px; left: -3px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: -3px; transform: rotate(0deg); user-select: text; width: 96px; z-index: 251659264;"><img alt="Dove with solid fill" class="WACImage SCXW84067770 BCX0" src="data:image/png;base64,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" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; border: none; height: 96px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; width: 96px;" unselectable="on" /><span class="WACImageBorder SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; display: block; height: 96px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: rotate(0deg); user-select: text; width: 96px;"></span></span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{183}" paraid="1297967407" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{187}" paraid="2143651603" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Good Shepherd of the sheep,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{193}" paraid="809640267" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Gather the forlorn and forsaken sheep into Your arms;</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{199}" paraid="1635990318" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Carry them </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">through the dark valley to the pace of Your pulse;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{207}" paraid="1894352066" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Extrude Your </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">undershepherds</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to guard, nour</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ish, and abide with them.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{219}" paraid="862029264" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{223}" paraid="331729066" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Master of the feast, </span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{229}" paraid="1098182328" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Send forth Your servants to bear</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{235}" paraid="1398831240" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">On stret</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">chers the sick and disabled,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{243}" paraid="482978090" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Welcoming them to the gracious abundance of Your hospitality,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{eb791bba-16ef-49c8-91cf-7c8efc740d3a}{249}" paraid="167484395" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Not dep</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">endent on performance, appearance, or productivity,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{2}" paraid="1967215385" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">But only on their need and willingness.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{8}" paraid="511823109" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{12}" paraid="689704255" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Lord of the harves</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{20}" paraid="2086096327" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Raise up Your fellow workers</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{26}" paraid="1059550966" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">To go forth weeping,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{32}" paraid="1756863105" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Carrying the seed of Your Word,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{38}" paraid="1227038118" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The seed of the gospel,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{44}" paraid="605081251" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The seed of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">promises and hope;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{52}" paraid="1642128464" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Cultivating Your truth;</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{58}" paraid="1311077749" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Pouring out Your life-giving water</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{64}" paraid="606311464" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">In hope of a harvest of joy.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{70}" paraid="1003813600" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{74}" paraid="1068004260" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun EmptyTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span><span class="WACImageContainer NoPadding DragDrop BlobObject SCXW84067770 BCX0" role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; cursor: move; display: inline-block; height: 102px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 2px; transform: rotate(0deg); user-select: text; width: 102px;"><img alt="Dove with solid fill" class="WACImage SCXW84067770 BCX0" src="data:image/png;base64,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" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; border: none; height: 96px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; width: 96px;" unselectable="on" /><span class="WACImageBorder SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; display: block; height: 96px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-wrap: nowrap; top: 0px; transform: rotate(0deg); user-select: text; width: 96px;"></span></span><span class="TextRun EmptyTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{79}" paraid="157904922" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{83}" paraid="802010010" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Lord God Almighty,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{89}" paraid="58020408" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Raise up </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">helpers to do for them </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">what</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> they cannot do;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{104}" paraid="405389430" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Raise up givers to bear the financial burden of those unable any longer to lift it for themselve</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{112}" paraid="299527031" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Raise up advocates to fight for and with them through the torturous disability and accommodation </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">process;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{120}" paraid="441841272" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Raise up physicians, wise and patient, belie</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ving their witness of suffering and weakness,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{128}" paraid="956132255" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Curious, diligent, and dedicated to finding anodynes now and, one day, cures;</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{134}" paraid="760973869" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Raise up teachers and tutors for the children who can only learn at home;</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{140}" paraid="101454537" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Raise up servants willing to help them on their own terms, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">gladly s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">tripping off </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">pride and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">self-preferences to wash their feet</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{156}" paraid="1914606083" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Raise up friends and comforters with listening, empathetic</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> ears,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{164}" paraid="1110214810" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Kind eyes, shared tears</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, ready to sit with Job on the ash heap</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in silence;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{174}" paraid="2023284755" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Raise up prophets speaking forth words of life, forgiven</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ess, hope, and peace;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{182}" paraid="1484735133" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Raise up just leaders ready to act with integrity and humble service,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{188}" paraid="1217425741" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Valuing moral duty </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">above political expediency;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{196}" paraid="37105468" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Raise up pastors to instill courage in the downcast,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{202}" paraid="1176525019" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">To streng</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">then marriages to endure the furnace of chronic illness,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{210}" paraid="423859836" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">To support grieving, anxious children who have lost</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ir</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Before-COVID parent</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{222}" paraid="1803392329" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Though that loving heart still beats.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{228}" paraid="546604258" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{232}" paraid="460097379" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Be all these things in Yourself, Lord:</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{238}" paraid="957374391" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Helper, giver, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">advocate,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{246}" paraid="1409449428" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Physician, teacher, servant,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{d662ed6a-6a6a-4c55-b500-166ad16c7b79}{252}" paraid="1982470563" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Friend, prophet, leader, pastor.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{3}" paraid="170064832" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">You are these and more</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{9}" paraid="2136314157" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">And can form us into Your likeness,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{15}" paraid="665151189" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">To do after You what we see in You,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{21}" paraid="933383858" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">To follow in Your steps.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{27}" paraid="1819719076" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="WACImageGroupContainer SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; display: inline-block; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 99px; min-width: 99px; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><span class="WACImageContainer NoPadding AttachedToBeginning DragDrop SCXW84067770 BCX0" role="presentation" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; cursor: move; display: inline-block; height: 96px; left: -3px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: -3px; transform: rotate(0deg); user-select: text; width: 96px; z-index: 251661312;"><img alt="Dove with solid fill" class="WACImage SCXW84067770 BCX0" src="data:image/png;base64,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" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; border: none; height: 96px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; width: 96px;" unselectable="on" /><span class="WACImageBorder SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; display: block; height: 96px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: rotate(0deg); user-select: text; width: 96px;"></span></span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{32}" paraid="1285236469" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{36}" paraid="1656018738" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Look upon the multitude of suffer</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ers with Long COVID,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{44}" paraid="1294649164" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The patients and families,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{50}" paraid="1662738348" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Who need all this practical aid</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{58}" paraid="346770021" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">And </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">als</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">o</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the care and cure of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">their </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">souls.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{77}" paraid="1805933190" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{81}" paraid="1555840889" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Who will You send, Lord? Who will go for You?</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{87}" paraid="702341355" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Where are the churches who</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> will search </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">out</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> these lost lambs</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">?</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{104}" paraid="482009881" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">These invisible ones, like lepers, exiled outside the camp?</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{110}" paraid="989864106" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Who will bend low in humble service,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{116}" paraid="432049004" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Be the hands and feet of Jesus to those who cannot respond in kind?</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: text;"> </span><br class="SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: text;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Who will join the fellowship of the beautiful feet,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{124}" paraid="1484887603" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Extending good news</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{130}" paraid="240489942" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Of</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> hope in Jesus,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{138}" paraid="1349297478" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The enduring king</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">dom to come, the new bodies awaiting,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{146}" paraid="102776600" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">A purpose in our suffering,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{152}" paraid="1175782578" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">All things cooperating</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> for good for those who love You.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{160}" paraid="1002502321" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The chronically ill will not, cannot, likely</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{166}" paraid="306628421" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Fill coffers</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> or pews, fold bulletins or chair committees.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{174}" paraid="808904205" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">They cannot teach Sunday school or sing in choir.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{180}" paraid="507039574" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{184}" paraid="1903593576" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Ye</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t lavishing love on the languishing</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{192}" paraid="677799585" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Is lavishing love on Christ.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{198}" paraid="845346421" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{202}" paraid="526382181" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Few of these vast needs can I meet,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{208}" paraid="1830684617" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Hardly any, in fact,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{214}" paraid="458489046" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">But a l</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">istening ear and loving heart,</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{222}" paraid="1473787599" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">A will to believe their testimonies—</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{228}" paraid="1735450461" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">These I can offer.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{234}" paraid="1517611400" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I can </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">seek</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to share the comfort You have given me in my own afflictions.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{240}" paraid="1334049891" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">It is a joy and privilege to learn from them</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{246}" paraid="655577696" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s they look out their virtual windows</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{26d8de53-1ef4-4900-8149-c51088bb3b4b}{254}" paraid="179493761" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Into mine, and we make eye contact:</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{dc8086ac-e322-4606-94c2-37a485dc3023}{5}" paraid="1142090351" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“Y</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ou, too?”</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{dc8086ac-e322-4606-94c2-37a485dc3023}{13}" paraid="776497600" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{dc8086ac-e322-4606-94c2-37a485dc3023}{17}" paraid="1782063600" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">W</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hat are these bread crusts and sardines in the face</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of so many millions of needs?</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{dc8086ac-e322-4606-94c2-37a485dc3023}{27}" paraid="290706924" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Yet here I am, Lord. Send me as You will. Use me as You will.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> If You will.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{dc8086ac-e322-4606-94c2-37a485dc3023}{35}" paraid="1068279593" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Bless and multiply these crumbs for Your name’s sake.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{dc8086ac-e322-4606-94c2-37a485dc3023}{41}" paraid="1907439807" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{dc8086ac-e322-4606-94c2-37a485dc3023}{45}" paraid="100701221" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Good Shepherd of the sheep—</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{dc8086ac-e322-4606-94c2-37a485dc3023}{51}" paraid="486804129" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Seek</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the lost and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">wounded and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> bear them up in Your strong ar</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ms.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{dc8086ac-e322-4606-94c2-37a485dc3023}{63}" paraid="1437161394" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Master of the great feast—</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{dc8086ac-e322-4606-94c2-37a485dc3023}{69}" paraid="1147926440" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Summon and serve the sick and disabled,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{dc8086ac-e322-4606-94c2-37a485dc3023}{75}" paraid="222644846" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Made welcome under You</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">r</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> banner of abundant l</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ove.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{dc8086ac-e322-4606-94c2-37a485dc3023}{87}" paraid="527774329" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Lord of the harvest—</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{dc8086ac-e322-4606-94c2-37a485dc3023}{93}" paraid="467131071" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Raise up faithful workers and send them </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">into Your fields</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{dc8086ac-e322-4606-94c2-37a485dc3023}{101}" paraid="1186215400" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">To labor diligently to gather in the fruit of Christ’s suffering.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{dc8086ac-e322-4606-94c2-37a485dc3023}{107}" paraid="1191858338" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{dc8086ac-e322-4606-94c2-37a485dc3023}{111}" paraid="259177889" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Your kingdom come, Fat</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">her.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{dc8086ac-e322-4606-94c2-37a485dc3023}{119}" paraid="1708008835" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Your will be done,</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{dc8086ac-e322-4606-94c2-37a485dc3023}{125}" paraid="215991606" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">For Your glorious name’s sake.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW84067770 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW84067770 BCX0" paraeid="{dc8086ac-e322-4606-94c2-37a485dc3023}{131}" paraid="1521505085" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Amen.</span><span class="EOP SCXW84067770 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div></div>tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86563362162856229.post-49113337302515858492023-07-09T00:00:00.004-05:002023-07-09T00:00:00.161-05:00The Apex of Hope<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiZlOFMsNV-S825DvfEFT1miTQd9upY1GT3luOIUFczr6stX6vzajXjWZkOuVBzhMicVRQ_Ai12m-tlRcNgpjt88xkavOeO1Iab7H8EsLBSU9VccZAm5fuIDXJ8bFNDcLsfywT3YnztVC0l3HVh9YsSeOmUfxRWrUBsivlNmjFJJML2xJ9F1cQPY0xCIk/s6000/DSC_0643.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiZlOFMsNV-S825DvfEFT1miTQd9upY1GT3luOIUFczr6stX6vzajXjWZkOuVBzhMicVRQ_Ai12m-tlRcNgpjt88xkavOeO1Iab7H8EsLBSU9VccZAm5fuIDXJ8bFNDcLsfywT3YnztVC0l3HVh9YsSeOmUfxRWrUBsivlNmjFJJML2xJ9F1cQPY0xCIk/w640-h426/DSC_0643.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>"The apex of all hope and happiness can be stated in four words: God is with us....</p><p>"The Bible is about the subject of intimacy with God. What does it look like? What are his purposes? He can and will meet you, and me, and those to whom we minister. God has not left us groping to understand his ways. He has not left us afloat in the ambiguous ecstasies and despairs of both experience and circumstance. He has revealed his ways. He has revealed himself. <b>The living faith that listens to the living Word of the living God will experience the sort of living intimacy that gives foretastes of heaven.</b>"</p><p>~David Powlison, <i>Take Heart</i></p>tinuvielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06462001159262770932noreply@blogger.com0