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This is from "Carmina Gadaleca" and was already an ancient Gaelic prayer/song in the 1800's . The author, Alexander Carmicheal (1900) wrote:
"In ancient times old people in the Isles would sing this ...This is from "Carmina Gadaleca" and was already an ancient Gaelic prayer/song in the 1800's . The author, Alexander Carmicheal (1900) wrote:
"In ancient times old people in the Isles would sing this or some other short hymn before prayer. Sometimes the hymn and the prayer are intoned in low tremulous unmeasured cadences like the moving and moaning, the soughing and the sighing, of the ever-murmuring sea on their own wild shores.
They would generally retire to a closet, to an outhouse, to the lee of a knoll, or to the shelter of a dell, that they may not be seen nor heard of men. I have known men and women of eighty, ninety, and a hundred years of age continue the practice of their lives in going from one to two miles to the seashore to join their voices with the voicing, of the waves and their praises with the praises of the ceaseless sea."
I am bending my knee
In the eye of the Father who created me,
In the eye of the Son who purchased me,
In the eye of the Spirit who cleansed me,
In friendship and affection.
Through Thine own Anointed One, O God,
Bestow upon us fullness in our need,
Love towards God,
The affection of God,
The smile of God,
The wisdom of God,
The grace of God,
The fear of God,
And the will of God
To do on the world of the Three,
As angels and saints
Do in heaven;
Each shade and light,
Each day and night,
Each time in kindness,
Give Thou us Thy Spirit.
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I feel that this ancient prayer is part of and touches every modern Scot's heritage and ancestry in some way, so I thought you all would be glad to reclaim it and use these old words/thoughts in your own prayers/devotions.
