{"id":253,"date":"2015-07-16T20:23:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T01:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jillmaria.com\/wordpress\/?p=253"},"modified":"2015-11-17T20:28:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T02:28:13","slug":"knowing-the-land-by-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jillmaria.com\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Knowing the Land by Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the morning fill us with your love. We shall exult and rejoice all our days&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Praying Morning Office off my phone in the dark just past Fargo NoDak on the train. Thanks<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibreviary.org\/en\/\"> IBreviary<\/a>. Somehow Psalm 90 seems right. Even n though I can&#8217;t yet see the terrain outside, I know it by heart.<\/p>\n<p>I am singing Jan\u00e8t Sullivan Whitakers &#8220;in Every Age&#8221; in my heart&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>( not aloud&#8230;don&#8217;t want to be that crazy lady on the train)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nR3I-McnF5c?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>O Lord, you have been our refuge *<br \/>\nfrom one generation to the next.<br \/>\nBefore the mountains were born \u2020<br \/>\nor the earth or the world brought forth, *<br \/>\nyou are God, without beginning or end.<\/p>\n<p>You turn men back into dust *<br \/>\nand say: \u201cGo back, sons of men.\u201d<br \/>\nTo your eyes a thousand years \u2020<br \/>\nare like yesterday, come and gone, *<br \/>\nno more than a watch in the night.<\/p>\n<p>You sweep men away like a dream, *<br \/>\nlike grass which springs up in the morning.<br \/>\nIn the morning it springs up and flowers: *<br \/>\nby evening it withers and fades.<\/p>\n<p>So we are destroyed in your anger, *<br \/>\nstruck with terror in your fury.<br \/>\nOur guilt lies open before you; *<br \/>\nour secrets in the light of your face.<\/p>\n<p>All our days pass away in your anger. *<br \/>\nOur life is over like a sigh.<br \/>\nOur span is seventy years *<br \/>\nor eighty for those who are strong.<\/p>\n<p>And most of these are emptiness and pain. *<br \/>\nThey pass swiftly and we are gone.<br \/>\nWho understands the power of your anger *<br \/>\nand fears the strength of your fury?<\/p>\n<p>Make us know the shortness of our life *<br \/>\nthat we may gain wisdom of heart.<br \/>\nLord, relent! Is your anger for ever? *<br \/>\nShow pity to your servants.<\/p>\n<p>In the morning, fill us with your love; *<br \/>\nwe shall exult and rejoice all our days.<br \/>\nGive us joy to balance our affliction *<br \/>\nfor the years when we knew misfortune.<\/p>\n<p>Show forth your work to your servants; *<br \/>\nlet your glory shine on their children.<br \/>\nLet the favor of the Lord be upon us: \u2020<br \/>\ngive success to the work of our hands, *<br \/>\ngive success to the work of our hands.<\/p>\n<p>Glory to the Father, and to the Son, *<br \/>\nand to the Holy Spirit:<br \/>\nas it was in the beginning, is now, *<br \/>\nand will be for ever. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>Psalm Prayer<\/p>\n<p>Eternal Father, you give us life despite our guilt and even add days and years to our lives in order to bring us wisdom. Make us love and obey you, so that the work of our hands may always display what your hands have done, until the day we gaze upon the beauty of your face.<\/p>\n<p>Ant. 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