When will your people learn to live within the blessings that you give?
Why do the ones called by your name bring on your church such pain and shame?
Why must your followers claim to be soldiers of Christ for all to see?
Where are the servants that you seek? Those who know "blessed are the meek"?
What kind of witness is this, where this world sees hate instead of care?
Power that should be all yours alone such leaders grasp and claim to own.
When we your love ought to extol, why then by force seek to control
Those whom, in serving, you we please, who once were called "the least of these"?
When will your people learn to live in love you call us all to give?
Come, shatter now these hearts of stone; make us to live in grace alone.
TEXT: Charles Spence Freeman, June 2022.
MUSIC: Tune MENDON, German melody; harm. Lowell Mason, 1831.
Just ... because.
Certainly pertinent to the news of the week, but I think probably just as appropriate even in weeks when neither we nor the journalists are paying due attention. Thanks.
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