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A young man wants to have his girlfriend join him (chaperoned) on a gap-year project - with her parents' blessing - but they are reluctant.

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For Bob Oh God, I see that you're at work,

because he wants to share good things with who

he'd like to do more with, not as a jerk,

but following your plan of what to do.

God, help him to rest all himself on you.

That you might be his underpinning help-

-er, who supplies a woman, as you do,

to bless us so that we might cry and yelp,

in pain and pleasure, growing to be true.

That he might be enabled so to grow

relationships, help him see options to

present new ways they prob'ly wouldn't go

unless they saw from other vantage points.

Unless he up-and-marries Jen before

he goes, I pray your help from who anoints

him son of Yeshua, the very poor,

the richest man who's ever lived on Earth.

I pray that Bob will model for her folk,

and Jen as well, a man whose higher birth

leads him to listen to the God who woke

him, and would then obey, if by himself.

And trust his Father to bring him, in time,

an Eve who would enable them in health

to bless this world with more like them, who rhyme.

Oh God, please in this world where Bob will lose

a lot of things, and folk he hoped to win,

I ask you'll help him solidly refuse 

to pout, but move with you on ev'rything.

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