🛡 Psalm 20: The Prayer Before the Battle

retransmitted by Virgin Monk Boy after watching someone get praised too much and wondering if their soul was still breathing

1
May the Holy hear you
not just when you shout
but when your voice is shaking

May you be met
not only in power
but in the quiet hour before the storm

2
May your past offerings
the little unseen things you gave away
be remembered
not because God needs gifts
but because Love never forgets

3
May your heart’s blueprint
be seen, honored
and gently revised when needed

4
May help rise like wind beneath you
not from your cleverness
but from the breath of the One who sees all

5
Some trust in spectacle
in warhorses and headlines
But we remember the name
that calls the soul back to itself

6
They will rise and fall
as all empires do
But you
may you stand

not on pride
but on presence

7
This is not a war cry
This is a sending
A cry of hope
for the ones walking into fire
still choosing to carry peace in their bones

—Virgin Monk Boy
(who has learned that sometimes the most faithful thing you can do
is not fight harder, but pray clearer)

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