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Monday, February 27. 2006

This Hymn, by George Herbert (1643), teaches great wisdom.
I have adapted it somewhat-

Teach me, my God and King, in all things thee to see,

and  what I do, in anything, to do it as for thee.

A man that looks on glass, on it may stay his eye;

or if he pleaseth, through it pass, and then [seeing beyond or behind the glass] heaven espy….

nothing can be so mean [ugly or lowly], which with this tincture [polish] [i.e.- this attitude: ] "for thy sake," will not grow bright and clean.

A servant with this clause [“for thy sake”] makes drudgery divine:

who sweeps a room, [for Jesus] makes that [room] and the action [of sweeping] fine.

This [attitude and motive] is the famous stone that turneth all to gold; for that which God doth touch and own cannot for less be [s]old.


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