and desires, indeed, collect all the powers of the spirit out of their disorder, and in the imagination of faith lead them into your heavenly light and life, so that in me the lost divine image, the character of your essence, the Son of your love The author is likely referring to the Pietist concept of the "new birth," where Christ is spiritually born within the believer's heart to restore the "image of God" lost in the Fall. may be born, and in your light my future praying and working may be performed. My God, order praying and working in me in such a way that the former may promote the rest of my soul in you, even while I am busy in my vocational work. And let my mind never be more peaceful than when I work, and never more busy than when I pray. And finally, be my light, that I may behold and be satisfied by it, when I awake in your likeness.

A small decorative crown ornament

The Second Hour of Rest in God,

The eyes of all wait upon you, and you give them their food in due season; you open your hand, and satisfy everything that lives with favor.

You rich God and inexhaustible source of all heavenly and earthly goods, you who fill the mountains and fields, the sea and all the rivers with your blessing. Your footsteps drip everywhere with fat A poetic biblical reference to Psalm 65:11, signifying that God's presence brings fertility and abundance to the earth., you grant us what is necessary, and give all flesh its food. Truly, you are a wonderful God, when I consider how you so richly provide for all your creatures,