May you please the Lord

By Nolan

Sun, 16 Jan 2022
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May His grace and blessings be endless
Be brave and bold He is ever with you
Blessed in faith hope and love abundant
May you please the Lord
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May God bless your crops and send rain
Your peaceful fields always green pasture
Provide reward richly for your labour
May you be safe in storm flood and fire
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Your daughters be beautiful kind and dutiful
Your sons courageous true and pure of heart
Tireless, strong back and hands willing
Of spirit unquenched and unconquered
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Where sown tears are sown weeping
May you reap with jubilant singing
May you drink deeply sweet water
With joy of the wells of salvation

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Amen

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Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Beautifully written. And the joy that comes despite weeping sometimes has a satisfaction  far deeper than the physical blessing which are sometimes withheld - maybe so we value the spiritual and the future certain hope? Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Nolan on

“A kind overflow of kindness, there are no faces truer than those that are so washed. How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!” according to Shakespeare. I have had joy like this it is not common, it is Amazing Grace. Carries on for hours.

And Blake, “Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.” Also I have seen such sorrow, almost hysterical laughing, shameless, it is heartbreaking.

Actually this is perhaps not completely appropriate here, and I do think this is not really quite what is meant in these my blessings.

Yes Rhiannon you are right. Indeed I would say that you are speaking of faith, defiant, triumphant. And the rewards. Splitting hairs really. And I have used the content of one or two verses but I feel my effort is completely original.

Nolan &