Yet [*/+/^] : Zealously Launching, Starward, My Prayer To Jesus Who Loves Me, 1 [After Jude 21]

LORD JESUS:  I pray to be kept in Your---God's---Love

that I may, someday, soar starward, above

the time and place of my death on earth, and the site of my grave;

preserve in Your Mercy, my soul, that You died, and rose from death, to save.

I pray, also, that gratitude will inform my entire conversation

(despite the ever present shadow of temptation):

thankful for the Orthodox Faith, the Joy of Common Salvation,

which is and shall always be my soul's chiefest exultation

among the redeemed, the Orthodox Church, that great congregation.

 

 


Starward, an Orthodox Christian

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Lines 7-9 allude to three of my favorite Scriptures:  Jude 3; and Psalm 35:9 and 18.  In the alphabetical arrangement of my poems, this is the final annotation referring to those three Scriptures; and is to be taken as a citation to them when they are alluded to or quoted in any poem in the list previous to this one.  Jude's term common salvation represents, to me, the Orthodox Faith; the Psalms' term great congregation represents the entire Orthodox Church, from the first Century A.D. until Christ returns.

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