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new; ever in action, ever at rest; gathering all things
to Yourself and needing none; sustaining and fulfilling
and protecting; creating and nourishing and making perfect
ever seeking, though lacking nothing.
You Who love without subjection to passion'
You are jealous but not with fear; You can know repentence
but not sorrow; can be angry, yet unperturbed by anger.
You can change the things You have made with Your mind,
but Your mind remains changeless. You find and receive bac
what You never lost. You are never in need, but rejoice
over Your gains. You are not greedy, but demand interest
manifold.
Men pay You more than they have to in order to
win from You in return, yet who has anything which is not
already Yours? You owe nothing, yet pay as if You were in
debt to Your preachers. You forgive what is owed to You
yet without losing thereby.
And with all this, what have I said, My God
and my Life and my Sacred Delight? What can anyone say
when he speaks of You?
Amen.