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O good Creator,
You made us man and woman;
You blessed us in our being
    for each other;
You planted Your creative potency in us
    and bound us to each other
       with seeking coquetry
          and the gallantry of proud pursuit,
       with living tendrils of delight,
       with new life, radiant,
          of our bodies sprung.

Forgive us, Lord.
We have forgotten Eden
    and have run from You
       down darkling paths
          of selfishness.
We have defiled Your gift
    and held cheap Your blessing.
We have made a mania of Your gift
    of conjugal sanity.

Bless us again, we pray,
    through Jesus Christ,
       who smiled on us
          at Cana once.



Martin H. Franzmann.  Pray for Joy (CPH, 1970)