Although I myself also have confidence in the flesh:
if someone thinks they have confidence in the flesh
I have even more…
…by circumcision – an eight-dayer
genetically from Israel,
of the tribe of Benjamin,
a Hebrew from Hebrews
in regards to the Torah – a Pharisee,
in regards to zeal, persecuting the Church
in regards to righteousness in the Torah, being faultless.
But these things which were profit to me,
I have reckoned them
because of Christ
loss.
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