4:18″The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed…
1 How can we look, and not be moved
by lives that end and eyes that plead,
where parents cry while families part
amid their last despairing need.
2 Once we were distanced from the ones
that suffered while we stood to stare.
God give the gift of empathy
that we might offer more than prayer.
3 If all the world could live as one
then we would feel another’s pain,
we’d feel each death as if our own
like links within a human chain.
4 When death and misery abound,
when illness strikes the human race,
God strengthen, fill us, with your hope
and bind us with your love and grace.
Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
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Metre: 8 8 8 8
Tunes: BRESLAU; ABENDS
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