If it is necessary to boast,
I will boast about my weaknesses.
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows
who is blessed forever
that I am not lying.
In Damascus,
a governor,
for the King Aretas
was guarding the city, Damascus
to arrest me.
and though a window
in a basket
I was let down
through the wall
and I escaped from his hands.
O Love, O God who created me, in your love recreate me.
O Love, who redeemed me,
fill up in me whatever part of your love
has fallen into neglect within me.
O Love, O God, who first loved me,
grant that with my whole heart,
and with my whole soul,
and with my whole strength,
I may love you.
Gertrude the Great