What greater thing is there to do, than to spend all my days contemplating Your goodness? For I long above all else to be in Your presence. When they come for me, on that day I shall know that I will see my Maker soon, and I will rejoice. For they think they are coming to bring about my doom, but rather they come to bring about my joy. How little do they realize what they are doing!
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