But you must return (repent, return to your starting point, be restored, bring back your heart, do it and do it again, turn back) to your God;
maintain (protect, guard, keep watch, have charge of the garden, keep, preserve)
love (goodness, kindness, mercies, pity, merciful kindness, lovingkindness, especially to the lowly and needy and miserable)
and justice (right, rectitude, judgement, the verdict of God),
and wait for (patiently, tarry, wait on, wait upon, expect, look eagerly for) your God
always (continually, constantly, daily like the morning and evening sacrifice, with uninterrupted continuity like the Bread that is always there). Hosea 12:6
Into the dark night
God brought us his heart
Laid it in a manger
A baby's cry echoing our pain
A tiny fist clutching life of breast
Then opening on prickly manger hay
Wrapped shroud-like against the biting cold
The heart of God
The heart of the universe
The heart to be broken and pierced
He brought his heart into the darkness
He brings his heart again tonight
He brings his heart always
Uninterrupted continuity
Like the morning and evening sacrifice
Like a tiny open hand on manger hay
Bring back your heart.
Photo by Jack Bair
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