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 Joy of Common Salvation,

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

among the redeemed of the great congregation.

 

 


J-Called, a grateful Orthodox Christian; the least of all the Orthodox Christian Faithful

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 Orthodox Church..

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