If love…a hymn

1           If love is foremost in our faith

              we have a choice to make 

              on this and every other day, 

              for all else is at stake; 

              we see a world that’s broken down, 

              where poverty and fear 

              are trampelling the weakest ones, 

              with hatred lurking near.

2           Today, God said, I give a choice 

              where life and death compete. 

              The chance is now for us to take,

              to finish, to complete –

              the turning of the tables here 

              as Christ, one time, had turned

              the temple tables, scattering greed, 

              to free those power had spurned.

3           Where selfishness can cripple lives, 

              or love can set them free, 

              what happens from this moment on 

              rests now with you and me: 

              if our audacious words of grace 

              can frame what we would pray, 

              then from this moment, in our time, 

              let love infuse each day.