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Reflectionsby the Pond

No. 407August 10, 2009

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“Come, let us return to the Lord.

For He has torn us, but He will heal us;

He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.

He will revive us af ter two days;

He will raise us up on the third day,

That we may live before Him.

So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord.

His going forth is as certain as the dawn;

And He will come to us like the rain,Like the spring rain watering the earth.”

Hosea 6:1-3

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For thus says the high and exalted OneWho lives forever, whose name is Holy,“I dwell on a high and holy place,And also with the contrite and lowly of

spiritIn order to revive the spirit of the lowlyAnd to revive the heart of the contrite.”

Isaiah 57:15 

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Tou who givest of Ty gladness

ill the cup runs o’er—

Cup whereof the pilgrim weary

 Drinks to thirst no more—

 Not a-nigh me, but within me

 Is Ty joy divine;

Tou, O Lord, hast made Ty dwelling 

 In this heart of mine.

 Need I that a law should bind me

Captive unto Tee? 

Captive is my heart, rejoicing 

 Never to be free.

 Ever with me, glorious, awful,

ender, passing sweet,

One upon whose heart I rest me,

Worship at His Feet.

With me, wheresoe’er I wander,

Tat great Presence goes,

Tat unutterable gladness,

Undisturbed repose.

 Everywhere the blessed stillness

Of His Holy Place—

Stillness of the love that worships

 Dumb before His Face.

o Ty house, O God my Father,

Ty lost child is come;

 Led by wandering lights no longer,

 I have found my home.

Over moor and fen I tracked them

Trough the midnight blast,

 But to find the Light eternal 

 In my heart at last.

Gerhard Tersteegen