{"id":2645,"date":"2007-03-01T02:24:45","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T02:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2007\/03\/at-the-end-of-these-my-twistin\/"},"modified":"2007-03-01T02:24:45","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T02:24:45","slug":"at-the-end-of-these-my-twistin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2007\/03\/at-the-end-of-these-my-twistin\/","title":{"rendered":"At the End of These My Twisting Paths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/AgonyInGarden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AgonyInGarden.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/AgonyInGarden-thumb.jpg\" width=\"234\" height=\"323\" style=\"float:right; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Didyme wrote this prayer.  I took the liberty of translating it from the French.  It is every sinner&#8217;s psalm.  The last two lines are extraordinary.<\/em><br \/>\nLord, thou knowest this heart of mine.<br \/>\nThou knowest the clashings that at sundry hours rage therein.<br \/>\nThou knowest my contradictions,<br \/>\npulled this way and that, I am torn within my breast.<br \/>\nThou knowest the things that give me life<br \/>\nand the things that wound me unto death,<br \/>\nall that is my joy and all that that is my sorrow Thou knowest,<br \/>\nthe strength that is mine,<br \/>\nand the weariness that on certain days is more than I can bear.<br \/>\nLord, thou knowest my life.<br \/>\nThou knowest its heights and its depths,<br \/>\nthe welling up of loves and the loathings that follow,<br \/>\nfidelity and infidelity,<br \/>\nseasons of flourishing and seasons of crisis,<br \/>\nmy brightnesses and my darker moments.<br \/>\nAll this, O Lord,<br \/>\nand all that is this life of mine Thou knowest,<br \/>\nthou who searchest the heart and its secret places.<br \/>\nBut above all this,<br \/>\nThou art the Son of Man who one day didst take Thy rest beside the well,<br \/>\nweak Thou wast, and worn, and thirsty,<br \/>\nin the garden held fast in the grip of fear,<br \/>\nand on the tree forsaken.<br \/>\nCome thou, my peace.<br \/>\nCome thou, my sweetness.<br \/>\nCome thou, my consolation.<br \/>\nCome thou my pardon and my love.<br \/>\nCome, rebuild the brokenness within.<br \/>\nCome, redress my fragile shelter.<br \/>\nCome, restore my hope.<br \/>\nBe thou to me one little flame in so vast a night.<br \/>\nAnd wait for me at the end of these my twisting paths,<br \/>\nfor it is Thee that I love and none other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didyme wrote this prayer. I took the liberty of translating it from the French. It is every sinner&#8217;s psalm. The last two lines are extraordinary. Lord, thou knowest this heart of mine. Thou knowest the clashings that at sundry hours rage therein. Thou knowest my contradictions, pulled this way and that, I am torn within <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florilegium"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-GF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}