Jesus prayed
for his disciples, “I have made your name known to those whom you gave
me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they
have kept your word. Now they know that everything you have given me is
from you; for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and
they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they
have believed that you sent me. I am asking on their behalf; I am not
asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me,
because they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I
have been glorified in them. And now I am no longer in the world, but
they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them
in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are
one. While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have
given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one
destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I
am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they
may have my joy made complete in themselves. I have given them your
word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the
world, just as I do not belong to the world. I am not asking you to take
them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one.
They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you have sent me into
the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I
sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.” John 17:6-19
All Encompassing Love
With each rotation of the circling sun
I recognize ever more and more
the bounty and gifts she bestowed
the sacrifices she never spoke of.
At times impossible to comprehend
at times more rigid that tender
often overwhelmed by exhaustion
I can hear her footsteps still.
Not the only child she cared for
her brood and every child arriving
her open heart and open door
made a circle around us as we fell.
Her laughter rings now in the sky
lighting up the densest foggy night
her arms encompassing her Savior
her smile reaching down from heaven.
Now is the time for us to rise
carrying that sacrificial giving love
spreading it like summer's dust
like stars flung across the night sky.
All Encompassing Love
With each rotation of the circling sun
I recognize ever more and more
the bounty and gifts she bestowed
the sacrifices she never spoke of.
At times impossible to comprehend
at times more rigid that tender
often overwhelmed by exhaustion
I can hear her footsteps still.
Not the only child she cared for
her brood and every child arriving
her open heart and open door
made a circle around us as we fell.
Her laughter rings now in the sky
lighting up the densest foggy night
her arms encompassing her Savior
her smile reaching down from heaven.
Now is the time for us to rise
carrying that sacrificial giving love
spreading it like summer's dust
like stars flung across the night sky.
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