How simple for me to live with You, O Lord!
How easy to believe in You!
When in confusion, my soul bares itself or bends,
When the most wise can see no farther than this
night and do not know what the morrow brings:
You fill me with the clear certainty that
You exist and that You watch to see that all the
paths of righteousness be not closed.
From the heights of worldly glory
I am astonished by the path through despair You have provided me
this path from which I have been worthy enough
to reflect Your radiance to men.
All that I will yet reflect, You will grant me.
And for that which I will not succeed in reflecting,
You have appointed others.
Amen.
Prayer by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, quoted in A Rose Will Grow Anywhere, pp. 68-9)
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