Additional Scriptures, Hymns and Prayers Embedded in Path Lines The next items are a compilation of the words embedded in this labyrinth.  I can not take credit of this being an original idea because I got the idea from my friend John Ridder from Paxworks to use scriptures in the labyrinth.  I was called by Divine Spirit to place the scriptures, hymns, psalms and other writings into the labyrinth as a way of integrating and anchoring the energy of the word patterns into the depths and core of my being.  Creating this labyrinth became of time of healing, transformation and integration of my divine, true self, it is my hopes that the energy of the word patterns will assist you on your journey of transformation as well.  Some of the words come from my church background; others come from areas of my spiritual journey that I have found in other places.  The creation of this design has been an evolving process in all aspects down to the name, it began as Wings, and followed by Wings of Isis to the name it now holds Wings of Wisdom. “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable I your sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer.” Psalm 19:14 Episcopal Book of Common Prayer (BCP) (located at entrance) Surely the Presence Surely the presence of the Lord is in this place I can feel God’s mighty power and God’s Grace There’s a Holy Hush around us I see Glory on each face Surely the presence of the Lord is in this place. Hymn from Unity Church of Fredericksburg Love One Another “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.  Now remain in my love.  If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his hove.  I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.  My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.  Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.”  John 15:9-13, NIV Study Bible Psalm 139:1-17 Lord, you have searched me out and known me;*you know my sitting down and my rising up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You trace my journeys and my resting-places* and are aquatinted with all my ways. Indeed, there is not a word on my lips,* but you, O Lord, know it altogether. You press upon me behind and before* and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;* it is so high that  I cannot attain to it. Where can I go then from your Spirit?* Where can I flee from your presence? If I climb up to heaven, you are there;* if I make the grave my bed, you are there also. If I take the wings of the morning* and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, Even there your hand will lead me* and your right hand hold me fast. If  I say “Surely the darkness will cover me,* and the light around me turn to night,” Darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day;* darkness and light to you are both alike. For you yourself have created my inmost parts;* you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I will thank you because I am marvelously made;* your works are wonderful, and I know it well. My body was not hidden from you,* while I was being made in secret and woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes behold my limbs, yet unfinished in the womb; all of them were written in your book;* they were fashioned day by day, when as yet there was none of them. How deep I find your thoughts, O God!* how great is the sum of them. If I were to count them, they would be more in number than the sand;* to count them all, my life span would need to be like yours.  BCP 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 If I speak in the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.   If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind.  It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.  But where there are prophesies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.  For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.  When I was a child, I thought like a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.  When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.  Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face.  Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.  But the greatest of these is love.  NIV Study Bible The First Song of Isaiah Surely, it is God who saves me; I will trust in him and not be afraid. For the Lord is my stronghold and my sure defense, and he will be my savior. Therefore you shall draw water with rejoicing From the springs of salvation. And on that day you shall say, Give thanks to the Lord and call upon his Name. Cry aloud, inhabitants of Zion, ring out your joy, For the great one in the midst of you is the Holy One of Israel. Surely, it is God who saves me; I will trust in him and not be afraid. For the Lord is my stronghold and my sure defense, and he will be my savior.  BCP/Hymnal Be Thou My Vision Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; All else be nought to me, save that thou art— Thou my best thought, by day or by night, Waking or sleeping, they presence my light. Be thou my wisdom, and thou my true word; I ever with thee and thou with me, Lord; Thou my great Father; thine own may I be; Thou in me dwelling, and I one with thee. High King of heaven, when victory is won, May I reach heaven’s joys, bright heaven’s Sun! Heart of my heart, what ever be fall, Still be my vision, O Ruler of all. BCP Hymnal Take My Life and Let It Be Take my life, and let it be consecrated, Lord to thee; Take my moments and my days, let them flow in ceaseless praise. Take my hands, and let them move at the impulse of thy love; Take my heart, it is thine own; it shall be my royal throne. Take my voice, and let me sing always only, for my King; Take my intellect, and use every power as thou shalt choose. Take my will, and make it thine; it shall be no longer mine. Take myself, and I will be ever, only all for thee.  BCP Hymnal Let Us Break Bread Let us break bread together on our knees; Let us break bread together on our knees; When I fall on my knees, with my face to the rising sun, O Lord, have mercy on me. Let us drink wine together on our knees; Let us drink wine together on our knees; When I fall on my knees, with my face to the rising sun, O Lord, have mercy on me. Let us praise God together on our knees; Let us praise God together on our knees; When I fall on my knees, with my face to the rising sun, O Lord, have mercy on me.   BCP Hymnal Seek Ye First Seek ye first the kingdom of God And its righteousness, and all these things shall be Added unto you; Allelu, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Allelu, alleluia! Ask, and it shall be given unto you, Seek, and ye shall find, knock and the door shall be opened unto you; Allelu, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Allelu, alleluia!  BCP Hymnal More to follow