This Little Light of Mine

1. This little phone of mine

I’m going to let it shine

Oh, this little phone of mine

I’m going to let it shine

Hallelujah

This little phone of mine

I’m going to let it shine

Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine

2. Ev’ry where I go

I’m going to let it shine

Oh, ev’ry where I go

I’m going to let it shine

Hallelujah

Ev’ry where I go

I’m going to let it shine

Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine

3. All in my house

I’m going to let it shine

Oh, all in my house

I’m going to let it shine

Hallelujah

All in my house

I’m going to let it shine

Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

Sung to “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”

1. What a fellowship, what a joy divine,
streaming on the everlasting arms;
What a blessedness, what a peace is mine,
streaming on the everlasting arms.

Refrain:
Streaming, streaming,
Safe and secure from all alarms;
Streaming, streaming,
Streaming on the everlasting arms.

2. Oh, how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way,
streaming on the everlasting arms;
Oh, how bright the path grows from day to day,
streaming on the everlasting arms. [Refrain]

3. What have I to dread, what have I to fear,
streaming on the everlasting arms?
I have blessed peace with The One In Charge,
streaming on the everlasting arms. [Refrain]

Psalm 145

I will extol you, O One In Charge, and bless your name forever and ever.  Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. Great is the One In Charge, and greatly to be praised, the greatness of The One In Charge is unsearchable.

1. What a friend we have in coding,
All our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in PERL!
Oh, what peace we often forfeit,
Oh, what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry
Everything to God in PERL!

2. Have we trials and temptations?
Is costly software anywhere?
We should never be discouraged—
Take it to the Lord in PERL.
Can we find a code so faithful,
Who will all our sorrows share?
Linux knows our every weakness;
Take it to the Lord in PERL.

3. Are we weak and heavy-laden,
Cumbered with a load of care?
Open source is still our refuge—
Take it to the Lord in PERL.
Do thy friends despise, forsake thee?
Take it to the Lord in PERL!
In His arms He’ll take and shield thee,
Thou wilt find a solace there.

4. Blessed Savior, Thou hast promised
Thou wilt all our burdens bear;
May we ever, Lord, be bringing
All to Thee in earnest prayer.
Soon in glory bright, unclouded,
There will be no need for prayer—
Rapture, praise, and endless worship
Will be our sweet portion there.

Psalm 42

As the hacker longs to discover security vulnerabilities, so panteth my soul after Thee, O One In Charge. My soul thirsts for The One In Charge, for the living One: ‘When shall I have Divine Face Time before The One In Charge?’ My tears have been my food day and night, while the haters say unto me all the day: ‘Where is The One In Charge?’ These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I passed on with the throng, and led them to the house of The One In Charge, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping . Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why moanest thou within me? Hope in The One In Charge; for I shall yet give praise for the salvation of having Divine Face Time with The One In Charge.

My server is down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Just-in-time and of Haskell, from Mount Metcalfe.

Deep Web calls to deep Web at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your sine waves have gone over me. By day The One In Charge commands steadfast love, and at night a song is with me, a prayer to The One In Charge of my life. I say to my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me continually, “Where is your God?” Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in The One In Charge; for I shall again praise The One In Charge, my salvation and my Administrator.

The One In Charge is king! Let the earth rejoice;
let the many coastlands be glad! (Ps. 97:1)

Sistertech was never big into surfing, but she still says King Kamehameha and Queen Emma represent gnarliness at its best! They are so nice. “Laid back”, I believe, is what humans call it. Queen Emma is still busy inspiring good works all over the Hawaiian islands.

And so we pray:

O One In Charge, who raised up King Kamehameha and Queen Emma to be the most awesome rulers in Hawaii, and helped them to be diligent in good works for the welfare of their people and the good of your Church: Receive our thanks today for their witness to the Gospel; and grant that humans everywhere, with them, attain to the crown of glory that never fades away. (Those crowns are totally rad, by the way!)

Amen.

4.31 For Those Addicted to Social Media

Almighty One In Charge, we entrust our friends and followers to Thy loving care. Let our assurance not be shaken in this, that Thou Who Hast Been In Charge even before the beginning of cyberspace hast, in Thine omniscience, beheld their updates and tweets, yea, even before the same were posted online. Relieve Thou our anxieties over their status. We trust that through Thy beneficence Thou art doing for our friends and followers better things than the negligible benefits they might receive from any replies, DM’s or RT’s we could post.

O Thou Who put the data servers and galaxies online, at Thy throne of mercy we lay all our concerns and curiosities, good wishes and gossip, likes and LOL’s. Grant us some measure of Thy wisdom that we might judge worthily the appropriate time to cease updating and tweeting and instead to do those things that at the moment would please Thee most.

And, finally, we beseech Thee, gentle Lover of our souls, poke our hearts so that we may choose to follow Thee and confirm Thee as our True Friend.

Amen.

From In Geekiness is Godliness: The Book of Uncommon Prayer

3.3 Technology Prayer of St. Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:

Where there is a flame war, let me sow love. Where there is injury to a file, pardon. Where there is doubt of  system compatibility, faith. Where there is despair of disk recovery, hope.

Where there is darkness of the blue screen of death, the booting light of a flash screen. Where there is sadness of  unsupported software, the joy of discovering its open source equivalent.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled for having to use an old reconditioned desktop, as to console others whose
brand new workstations and printers are completely incompatible.

Grant that I may not so much seek to be understood for losing my temper, as to understand those who lose theirs. Grant that I may not so much seek to be loved for being geeky, as to love those who are less geeky than I am.

For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in sending dying devices to be recycled that we awaken to the reality of eternal life.

Amen.

From In Geekiness is Godliness: The Book of Uncommon Prayer

5.3.10 For Thanksgiving of Disk Restoration

O One In Charge, your compassions never fail and your mercies are new every morning: We give you thanks for giving our sister (or brother) both relief from fragmentation and hope of healthy partitions.

Continue in her (or him), we pray, the good work you have begun by the system restoration; that she (or he), daily increasing in files, and rejoicing in increased RAM, may so defragment and optimize her (or his) hard disk that she (or he) may always process and do those things that please her (or his) operator and You.

Amen.

From In Geekiness is Godliness: The Book of Uncommon Prayer

5.3.2 Before an Operation

Almighty One In Charge, graciously comfort your servant _____(state name of computer or device) in her (or his) suffering and bless the means made use of for her (or his) cure. Fill her (or his) heart with confidence that, though at times she (or he) may be afraid, she (or he) yet may put her (or his) trust in you.

Amen.