If God in love invests us with a voice (website only)
- Metre:
- 10.10.10.10.(10.10.10.10.)
- Authors & translators:
- Pratt, Andrew
- Tune:
- Eventide
- Composers & arrangers:
- Langran, James
- Hymns on StF+:
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At at a time of continued war in Israel/Palestine and Ukraine/Russia as people seek, or fear, to protest what might our Christian response be?
If God in love invests us with a voice,
and given hell on earth, a human choice,
we cannot cry our tears into this night
if we are silent with our people’s plight.
Don’t say that they are foreign, not our own,
these faces greeting rocket, tank or drone,
for as these people flee towards our shore
they seek for care and safety, nothing more.
Humanity, the common life we share,
is all that’s left that we can hold and bear,
so as we look into each human face,
see Christ and through God’s Spirit offer grace.
Andrew Pratt
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