David Wierzbicki

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The All-Good

MY GOD,

Thou hast helped me to see,
that whatever good be in honour and
rejoicing, how good is he who gives them,
and can withdraw them;
that blessedness does not lie so much
in receiving good from and in thee,
but in holding forth thy glory and virtue;
that it is an amazing thing to see Deity
in a creature, speaking, acting,
filling, shining through it;
that nothing is good but thee,
that I am near good when I am near thee,
that to be like thee is a glorious thing:
This is my magnet, my attraction.

Thou art all my good in times of peace,
my only support in days of trouble,
my one sufficiency when life shall end.
Help me to see how good thy will is in all,
and even when it crosses mine
teach me to be pleased with it.
Grant me to feel thee in fire, and food and every providence,
and to see that thy many gifts and creatures
are but thy hands and fingers taking hold of me.
Thou bottomless fountain of all good,
I give myself to thee out of love,
for all I have or own is thine,
my goods, family, church, self,
to do with as thou wilt,
to honour thyself by me, and by all mine.
If it be consistent with thy eternal counsels,
the purpose of thy grace,
and the great ends of thy glory,
then bestow upon me the blessings of thy comforts
If not, let me resign myself to
thy wiser determinations.

From The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions

The church read this together today. Such a powerful statement of our
receiving and giving all to God: from Good, to Good, for Good. This, I
think is maybe what folks really mean when they assure you that “It’s
all good.”

Tags: prayer, thanks, good, blessing, puritan

See the World Through the Eyes of Google, Circa 2001

I don’t know how long this will be available for browsing, but it gives a great picture of the online world from approximately January 2001. Google has made accessible for searching, their oldest available index. Try it out. It provides a peak into the topography of the internet just before it truly exploded. T1 and cable access was still prohibitively expensive for most people. Napster had just recently had its free mp3 sharing curtailed. Believe it or not, Emergent Village did not yet exist… Strangely though, the church emerging was already alive and well