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We expect nothing, God,
from ourselves
and everything that we have
comes from you.
We are dependent on your love
and your kindness.
Treat us well –
do not measure out your grace,
but give us your own power of life,
your Son Jesus Christ,
mercy and faithfulness
more than we can imagine
today and all the days
of our lives.
We are the work of your hands, O God.
You, Lord, have made us and love us.
All our life is your gift,
all your power was in
our creation
and thus you will go on giving to us
grace upon grace.
What more need we hope for
from you?
This certainty – God –
is good enough for us.
Huub Oosterhuis, 1933- , Dutch Jesuit theologian and poet
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Indeed, we have all received grace upon grace from his fullness,
for the law was given through Moses;
grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
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