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43 lines
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## 20:4
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> Your heart's desire
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>> May he grant you your heart's desire, and fulfil all your counsel.
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Occasion: Bringing dreams before God
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Lord, I have built mansions in my mind ---
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work I could do,
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places I could go,
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a life that is wide and bright when I imagine it.
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I return to these mansions often.
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Sometimes they give me hope.
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Sometimes I hold them so tightly
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that any other future feels like loss.
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I bring these plans to You
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before they become a place I refuse to leave.
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I want them so much,
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and I'm afraid of being disappointed.
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Save me from loving the picture
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more than I love Your voice.
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Save me from calling every strong wish
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``a sign.''
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Teach me to desire without demanding,
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to hope without pretending I know,
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and to wait without closing my heart.
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Take what is false.
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Keep what is true.
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Open the right door,
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and close the shiny wrong one,
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even when I do not understand why.
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These are the mansions in my mind.
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Grant what serves me, Lord,
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and quietly close the rest.
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Amen.
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