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## 139:13
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>You Knit Me Together
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>>For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb... my frame was not hidden from you when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
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Occasion: Miscarriage
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Lord, You knit together what I never got to hold.
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I don't have a photograph.
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I don't have a name everyone else got to use.
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Just a due date I still know by heart,
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and a silence where a heartbeat should have been.
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People don't always know this counts as loss.
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They didn't meet who I was already loving.
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But I felt them ---
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if only as hope,
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if only as future,
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if only as the first hushed word: almost.
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You knew them before I did.
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You knit them together in secret ---
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the part of the story only You got to see.
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I don't need an explanation.
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I need to know they were not too small for You,
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not too brief,
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not too hidden ever to matter.
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Let what was only begun still be complete in You.
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Let whom I could not finish carrying
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be someone You carry still.
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Hold what I never got to hold.
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Amen.
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