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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: me, and turn not away in anger from thy servant. Be thou my
helper; cast me not utterly away, and forsake me not, O God my
Saviour, because my father and mother forsake me; but do thou, O
Lord, take me up. Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in the
right way because of mine enemies. Deliver me not over unto the
souls of them that afflict me; for I have been cast upon thee
ever since I was born; thou art my God even from my mother's
womb. O go not from me, because, except thee, there is none to
help me. For lo, I set the hope of my soul upon the ocean of thy
mercies. Be thou the pilot of my soul, thou that steerest all
creation with the unspeakable forethought of thy wisdom; and shew
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