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Lift Up Your Hearts‎#447

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447

A Prayer of Humility

Hymn Information

First Line: O LORD, my heart is not lifted up
Topic: Difficult Times

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Public Domain

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This prayer is © Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license allows the indicated material to be remixed, tweaked, and built upon noncommercially, as long as the new creations are credited and licensed under identical terms. In other words—you can use the material and change it to fit your worship setting, provided you do not sell it and you use the same copyright line that was on the material originally.

Scripture References

Psalm 131

447

A Prayer of Humility

Introductory/Framing Text

O Christ,

our lives and our world seem so tangled and complicated.

Help us to desire nothing else but that you will always be present to us,

and that we may always be present to you. Amen.

— Psalms for All Seasons (http://www.psalmsforallseasons.org)

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