Let me prefer a life
Of hardship and struggle
But with Your presence near
Over a land of milk and honey
Cleared out by Your destroying angel
But deprived of Your Emmanuel.
Let me mourn in Your absence,
Casting off worthless little
Worldly baubles and distractions,
Longing for a truer wealth:
Your pillar of fire,
Your pillar of cloud,
Your moment-to-moment sustenance,
Heavenly bread,
Water from the riven Rock.
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