<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400456" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Your works display your righteousness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(after Gerard Manley Hopkins) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your works display your righteousness, Lord, <br>and your love and mercy I cannot comprehend, <br>even your wisdom and power is without end, <br>Your sincerity is displayed in your word </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but the works of my enemies prosper<br>and they are men, who do not honour you, <br>whose lives, whose words are never true, <br>while all my endeavours end in disaster</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and Sir, at times I am struggling to know<br>if you view me as a enemy or as a friend, <br>while vile men rise against me, even every fiend, <br>creatures that with darkness glow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I pray to have your blessings again, <br>to comprehend your will, <br>for protection against all the gathering evil, <br>for your presence like sweet refreshing drops of rain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and please forgive my faithlessness, <br>forgive my uncomprehending human ways<br>while you visit me in the coming days<br>and may I find in your presence tranquillity and rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: “Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend” by Gerard Manley Hopkins.]</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=400456" data-title="Your works display your righteousness de Gert Strydom" data-description="(after Gerard Manley Hopkins) Your works display your righteousness, Lord, and your love and mercy I cannot comprehend, even your wisdom and power is without end, Your sincerity is displayed in your word but the works of my enemies prosper ..."></div> </div> </div>

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