High and lofty One who is inhabiting eternity,
Bridge the boundaries that separate the temporal from the immortal. Pour out anointing - the oil of the fire, and multiply it to your service and to your lamp of light. Upset the secular aspects of life and pour eternity in.
Change our view, our expression. Bind to us love, and move us by compassion to pour out your works. Turn our face to you so the expressions we carry are the shape of your face as we humble ourselves, and I fall to my face in worship.
I pour out my heart, the box of my existence: I want it full only of you. Teach my labors to magnify your name, teach my talents to multiply and my lamp to never go out. Remind my heart daily to delight in you. Sustain me through the darkness of my insufficiencies by the light of your face. I lay my face upon your feet - to worship as close as I can get. When you stand me up write your name up on my face. Stir in me your mysteries and set your glory on my back. Be magnified for your name's sake, and raised high in the earth. Be exalted, my Lord and King, over all the earth and shine out like the sun's dawning.
~JLB
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