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## 103:2
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> Don’t Forget All His Benefits
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>> Praise the LORD, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits,
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Occasion: Remembering past help
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Lord, take me back for a minute ---
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to the place where I waited,
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to the week I thought would break me,
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to the morning You carried me through and I did not fall.
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Bring to mind the help I have forgotten.
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Not to live in the past,
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but to trust You in the future.
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I remember the fear more easily sometimes.
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I remember how long the days felt,
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how scared I was,
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how little I knew about what would come next.
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But trouble was not the whole story.
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If I forget where You met me,
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I would face this day as if I came here alone.
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I would call Your rescue ``luck''
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and Your mercy ``accident.''
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I would mistake my survival for my own strength
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and forget how often I had none left.
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Set Your mercies in order before me.
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Let them stand like markers by the road,
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bright markers that say,
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You helped me here.
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And here.
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And here.
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And when today feels unlike anything before,
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when I cannot yet see what Your help will look like,
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keep me from believing that I have been abandoned.
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You helped me then, Lord.
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You will not be absent ---
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ever.
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Amen.
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