The First Antiphon
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the mouth of the Most High,
pervading and permeating all
creation, mightily ordering
all things: come and teach us the
way of prudence.
The Meditation
Prudence is not a word
we love. It inhibits our choice.
We prefer the allure of tinsel
and artifice, the relentless
tug toward the flesh
of a paltry beauty.
And we inhabit a planet
of uncertainty.
Who is the friend
and where the enemy,
as we are pulled
this way and that?
We extend our hand
or should we fight
instead?
Now Wisdom speaks,
parsing, separating,
reordering, steering us
from quicksand’s brink
the enfleshed Word
steady on firm terrain.
We balance there
between yes and no.
We await him.
Come, Lord Jesus.
~Jill Peláez Baumgaertner
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