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Let your face shine on your servant. *
Save me in your love.

whatever it is,
this salvation
the psalmist longs for
save me.

Though we are still unready for our Father’s banquet, let us acknowledge the manger of our Lord Jesus Christ.

lead us to this readiness  

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The Lórd’s is the éarth and its fúllness, *
the wórld and áll its péoples.
It is hé who sét it on the séas ; *
on the wáters he máde it fírm.

Recalling the Metaphor of the Terrarium :

The cosmos
the whole Kit and Kaboodle
was put in place by god
and its god who keeps
everything going
everything sustained
everything loved

the past
the future
the present moments
one two three

break open
the prison of my heart
to the quiet
splendor