NEUOFFENBARUNGTo sing to the Lord in the day of visitation
1. Oh Lord! As You have given me, very specially constituted, my being, so You teach me and guide me and lead me, according to Your most holy will, to walk in the way of the righteous.
2. How delicious and praiseworthy it is to walk this path, which You, Father, You most Holy Father, as Creator and Lord of all life, show us, Your creatures, Yourself, so that on such a path full of divine light and life, as weak creatures, we may most blessedly attain eternal life full of freest power from You, oh Most Holy Father
3. But as You, oh most holy Father and Creator of angels and humans, have created here over the earth of our temporal walk such an innumerable variety of flowers and grasses and trees and shrubs, since none is like the other in color, shape and smell and taste, and yet each corresponds most perfectly to that most holy purpose which You have set for it.
4. Oh, most holy Father, You will also faithfully help us humans who, as if on the floating, wavering earth from death to death as Your redeemed, walk here mourning and hoping, to reach and let us surely find the former eternal holy purpose which You Yourself have set and shown us.
5. As I see and always experience, one human life is certainly not like another; for almost everyone there acts and walks as if he had his very own Creator and God, whose inner secret beckoning he seemed to follow;
6. But the earth and all it’s divine creation calls out to me: "Oh foolish inquirer and searcher in things and ways which God has arranged before one of the countless suns has shone in the endless space, see, even on the one and same tree, not one leaf is like the other in abundance! How will you then remodel the freest created humanity?"
7. When I heard such things from all the earthly creation like an endless choir of many voices to the most amazing praise of the eternally creating Father, who is holy, immeasurably holy, there I become full of the most blissful joy and, like a most blissful spirit already risen from the grave, I join in the great harmonic jubilant chord of all endless creation, and sing:
8. „Oh holy, eternally all-wisest, most loving Father! How good, yes, how exceedingly good You must be, that You can show me, the still mortal wanderer on this perishable earth, so clearly, how endlessly many paths full of light and eternal truth You have created, on which we here, as budding children and weak pupils of life, could never miss the paths to You, oh Most Holy Father.
9. The angels, the suns and worlds, and all the powers of the heavens and worlds praise You as their almightiest, most gracious, wisest Creator; for You are their only Lord and their only God!
10. Oh then, most Holy Father, let me also, even if only as an insignificant worm in the dust before You, praise and glorify You, as You have created me out of Your most holy order for Your infinite praise and glory."
11. For what can I, what else should I give you, Oh Father in heaven, it is all yours, what I have and am; but praise and glorify, oh most holy Father, with acting and walking and words according to such a holy order, which you have given me therefore and so only, that I can, that I must – because this holy order in me is exactly the divine freedom of the eternal immortal spirit, which You have given me out of Yourself, that therefore through it, I can recognize the eternal Holy Father in you.
12. I have recognized and found You, Holy Father, and have recognized and found the holy order of eternal love in my immortal spirit, which You have given me out of Yourself, however special it may be before the spirit of other people and brothers.
13. So will I also praise and extol You, oh holy Father, as I have found You, in the way allotted to me, in the spirit of the order that You have given me. And so be, oh Father, full of goodness and love and wisdom in spirit and truth, praised and extoled your Holy Name in eternity. Amen.