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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399141" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Prayer for a ruined earth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I. You that are almighty</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the beginning You that are almighty<br>spoke mighty words, <br>reaching Your hands out to the darkness<br>and defined the existence of all things</div><div style="margin:10px 0">letting light come out of total darkness<br>with the first morning breaking<br>causing stars, comets and planets to break free out of nothing<br>and with Your immeasurable power and knowledge</div><div style="margin:10px 0">caused life to come forth from the nought<br>forming man to your own image<br>and long before this, <br>even before the fall of man, forgiveness already existed, <br>You had already decided<br>in love for the sake of man, on Your own death sentence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II. You left the wide world to the care of man</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You left the wide world to the care of man, <br>to maintain, to care for it<br>but in every word and deed man only wanted to profit<br>with that which declares his glory</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and he treated the earth as if it is substitutable<br>stripped the sea, chopped the woods down<br>and to man the earth was no heritage<br>he caused the atom to escape from its nucleus</div><div style="margin:10px 0">thought that like a god he was treading in Your steps<br>chased after unknown devastation, <br>saw the hydrogen bomb explode with a bang, <br>dared the destruction of everything living</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and on a ruined planet man is trapped, <br>in a world where everything is starting to hang in balance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III. Still we know</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still we know that Your almighty hand<br>rest on all things<br>and You are aware about a world that is declining, <br>are aware about evil and hold everything in check.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out of You who once made our paradise perfect, <br>there constantly flows wonderful light<br>while You watch the words and deeds of man, <br>keeping our existence in equilibrium.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You prepare the way in advance for every human being<br>and where man fails<br>destroys each other, cursing one another, <br>You have already prepared the outcome in advance</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and still You determine over the lot of every man and thing<br>and in wonder we are waiting on Your return.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: Gebed vir die aarde (Prayer for the earth) by Johann Lodewyk Marais.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q>
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At the beginning You that are almighty
spoke mighty words, 
reaching Your hands out to the darkness
and defined the existence of all things

letting light come out of total darkness
with the first morning breaking
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