Listen, Lord - A Prayer
O Lord, we come this morning
Knee-bowed and body-bent
Before thy throne of grace.
O Lord -- this morning --
Bow our hearts beneath our knees,
And our knees in the lonesome valley.
We come this morning --
Like empty pitchers to a full fountain,
With no merits of our own.
O Lord -- open up a new window of heaven
And lean out far over the battlements of glory
And listen this morning.
--James Weldon Johnson
Like empty pitchers to a full fountain--I love that image. Splash down, Spirit water, all over us, til full and overflowing.
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