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Glorified Be Thou, O My God! Behold Thou My

Sources: Prayers And Meditations

Glorified be Thou, O my God! Behold Thou my head ready to fall before the

sword of Thy Will, my neck prepared to bear the chains of Thy Desire, my

heart yearning to be made a target for the darts of Thy Decree, mine eyes

expectant to gaze on the tokens and signs of Thy wondrous Mercy. For

whatsoever may befall me from Thee is the cherished desire of them who

thirst to meet Thee, and the supreme aspiration of such as have drawn nigh
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unto Thy court.



By the glory of Thy might, O Thou my Well-Beloved! To have sacrificed my

life for the Manifestations of Thy Self, to have offered up my soul in the

path of the Revealers of Thy wondrous Beauty, is to have sacrificed my

spirit for Thy Spirit, my being for Thy Being, my glory for Thy glory. It

is as if I had offered up all these things for Thy sake, and for the sake

of Thy loved ones.



Though my body be pained by the trials that befall me from Thee, though it

be afflicted by the revelations of Thy Decree, yet my soul rejoiceth at

having partaken of the waters of Thy Beauty, and at having attained the

shores of the ocean of Thine eternity. Doth it beseem a lover to flee from

his beloved, or to desert the object of his heart's desire? Nay, we all

believe in Thee, and eagerly hope to enter Thy presence.



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