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> Keep the Door of My Lips
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>> Set a watch, LORD, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
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Occasion: When I need courage for an ordinary conversation
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Lord, I need to say something.
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It is not a speech.
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No crowd is waiting.
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The world will go on afterward.
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But this conversation matters to me,
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and I am afraid of getting it wrong.
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I have practiced sentences in my head.
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Some sound too sharp.
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Others hide what I really mean.
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Give me words that are true
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without using truth as a weapon.
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Help me listen after I speak.
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Keep me from trying to control
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how the other person receives what I say.
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That part is not mine.
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What is mine
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is to speak with courage and honesty,
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to listen with humility and patience,
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and to leave room for an answer
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I may not expect.
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Or like.
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Let the words of my mouth
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and what lies beneath them
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be acceptable to You.
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Help me open my mouth
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and begin.
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Amen.
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