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Psalm 139
Adapted by Charles K. Robinson


I know you. I created you.
I am creating you.
I have loved you from your mother's womb.
you have fled-as you know-from my love.
But I love you nevertheless,
and not-the less and,
however far you flee,
it is I who sustain your very power of fleeing,
and I will never finally let you go.
I accept you as you are. You are forgiven.
I know all your sufferrings.
I have always known to them.
For beyond your understanding,
when you suffer, I suffer.
I also know all the tricks by
which you try to hde yhe ugliness
you have made of your life from yourself and others.
But you are beautiful.
You are beautiful more deeply
wihtin than you can see.
You are beautful because you yourself,
in the unique one that only you are
reflect already something of the beauty of my holiness
in a way which shall become.
through the transforming power of my love
you shall become perfectly beautiful.
You shall become perfectly beautiful in a uniquely irreplaceable way,
which neither you nor I will work out alone.