Rule Over Me
(“Someday I will
appoint an honest king from the family of David, a king who will be wise and
rule with justice.” Jeremiah 23:5)
Rule over me in
Righteousness,
Reign over all my merciless,
Sing into me Your Lovingness,
Wash away all my passionless.
Reign over all my merciless,
Sing into me Your Lovingness,
Wash away all my passionless.
Declare Your
Name, Decree my shame
has been swept final away, and the fury of my
misspent gain is bankrupt fully subtracted.
has been swept final away, and the fury of my
misspent gain is bankrupt fully subtracted.
Linger over me
in green-hill joy,
Loom far above my gray-back alley,
Command perfection, ban my collections
of gods who whipped me into shapeless and
goddesses who laughed my ghost.
Loom far above my gray-back alley,
Command perfection, ban my collections
of gods who whipped me into shapeless and
goddesses who laughed my ghost.
Subject, silent,
awake and aware,
I am all unclothed, unstable, unable
to bear the touch the broken wool against my skin
one day longer without Your dominion
within.
I am all unclothed, unstable, unable
to bear the touch the broken wool against my skin
one day longer without Your dominion
within.
Laugh at my
handy attempts, my exempt petitions
that beg Your permission for one more misstep, one more
toe across the line. We were doing fine until
I kinged me acute one sunny day.
that beg Your permission for one more misstep, one more
toe across the line. We were doing fine until
I kinged me acute one sunny day.
Humbling upon
the harsh reality,
mocking my own rewritten legality,
I kneel this time face-first in my sorrow and joy,
Righteous King, Rule over me; all Your Lovingness Sing.
mocking my own rewritten legality,
I kneel this time face-first in my sorrow and joy,
Righteous King, Rule over me; all Your Lovingness Sing.
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