February 07, 2013

A Prayer




Zechariah's Song. It meant a lot to me when I read it--just like poetry.


“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
    for he has visited and redeemed his                                        
         people 
and has raised up a horn of salvation         
   in the house of his servant David,
as he spoke by the mouth of his holy                                                             prophets from of old,
that we should be saved from our  
        enemies
    and from the hand of all who 
         hate us;
to show the mercy promised to our
        fathers
    and to remember his holy covenant,
 the oath that he swore to our father
         Abraham, to grant us
    that we, being delivered from the 
         hand of our enemies,
might serve him without fear,
     in holiness and righteousness before 
        him all our days.                                                                And you, child, will be called the 
       prophet of the Most High;

    
for you will go before the Lord to 
       prepare his ways,                          
to give knowledge of salvation to his 
         people
    in the forgiveness of their sins,                                               because of the tender mercy of our 
          God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us                                  
        from on high                                                                                to give light to those who sit in 
         darkness and in the shadow of       
         death,
    to guide our feet into the way of                                                               peace.”     

~Luke 1:68-79



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