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        Luke 23:46.

“Into your hands I commend my spirit!”,           Psalms 30:6.
you said to your Father, before whom
the waters trembled, and the earth shivered
in an agony of birth. And it was the long
awaited soul: that of Adam. Feeling jealous
now that your blood flowed through
its bones, the earth shook off the layer
of maternal clay which had covered it.
Through His mouth God gave it a soul,
and through your mouth he gave it your
final breath, Jesus, an eternal fountain
which sings in the depths of the forest.

“Into your hands I commend my spirit!”
Into the invisible hands of your Father,
the foundation and roof of the abyss,
the hands that made us in your image;
surrendering yourself to sorrow, you rested
your spirit in His all-powerful hands!