<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399411" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>That pain exists is necessary Lord (in reply to Breyten Breytenbach)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">That pain exists is necessary Lord, <br>as it purifies me<br>and the more I suffer the nearer it brings me, <br>it brings You nearer to me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and at times Your crucifixion is too terrible<br>to understand, it torments me<br>to think that mere man<br>could act so mercilessly, so revolting, <br>like the deranged could shout and scream<br>to kill You, Lord<br>and some of them murderous<br>leaning forward and jump up and down</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and although Your death is a realisation<br>of many prophecies, <br>Your suffering paid the price for the lot of man, <br>I am still lost<br>in your unselfish love<br>that demands from Your Father<br>to leave the perpetrators without reckoning, <br>the people that were spitting on You, <br>the people that hated You<br>and nobody can understand such deep love, <br>that does not turn around self, or own profit</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but your pain and suffering was necessary Lord<br>and although some turn their backs on You<br>I beg You to keep me on the right way, <br>for Your help to unlearn my own conceit, <br>that is harming our relationship.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: breyten bid vir homself (breyten prays for himself) by Breyten Breytenbach.]</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399411" data-title="That pain exists is necessary Lord (in reply to Breyten Breytenbach) de Gert Strydom" data-description="That pain exists is necessary Lord, as it purifies me and the more I suffer the nearer it brings me, it brings You nearer to me and at times Your crucifixion is too terrible to understand, it torments me to think that mere man could act so merc..."></div> </div> </div>

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