15I’ve seen everything in my mere-breath-life:
There’s a righteous person who dies in their righteousness
and there’s a unrighteous person who keeps on going in their unrighteousness.
16Don’t be greatly righteous
and don’t be greatly wise: why should you be devastated?
17Don’t be greatly unrighteous and don’t be a fool:
why die when it’s not your time?
18It’s good that you take hold of this one
but also not let go of your grasp of the other,
because someone in awe of God will escape with both of them.
Be thou a bright flame before me,
Be thou a guiding star above me
Be thou a smooth path below me
Be thou a kindly shepherd behind me
Today – tonight -forever
Amen.
St Columba