Mother of God
Here I stand now praying
Before this icon
Of your radiant brightness
Not praying to be saved
From a battlefield
Not giving thanks
Nor seeking forgiveness
For the sins of my soul
Nor for all the souls
Numb, joyless
And desolate on earth
But for her alone
Whom I wholly give you
I have ventured away from posting. WordPress changed the editing software and I did not take to the changes. I did not even try. I found the detachment beneficial. Many changes, many happenings, I am comfortable detailing nothing personal. Father Roger has returned to Tanzania. I figured out how to resort to WordPress’s classic editor, pleased to return to what I know. Enough is enough. St Francis of Assisi: “Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
The LORD God said:
“It is not good for the man to be alone.
I will make a suitable partner for him.”
So the LORD God formed out of the ground
various wild animals and various birds of the air,
and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them;
whatever the man called each of them would be its name.
The man gave names to all the cattle,
all the birds of the air, and all the wild animals;
but none proved to be the suitable partner for the man.
So the LORD God cast a deep sleep on the man,
and while he was asleep, he took out one of his ribs
and closed up its place with flesh.
The LORD God then built up into a woman
the rib that he had taken from the man.
When he brought her to the man, the man said:
“This one, at last, is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
this one shall be called ‘woman,’
for out of ‘her man’ this one has been taken.”
That is why a man leaves his father and mother
and clings to his wife,
and the two of them become one flesh.
The man and his wife were both naked, yet they felt no shame.
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