Good Friday hymn – Let us pause for recollection
1 Let us pause for recollection
of a day that shook the earth:
day of gruesome execution,
day of death, yet hope of birth?
Will we turn away, denying
those who show us how to live
lives of sacrificial kindness,
scared to love, afraid to give?
2 Will we wash our hands like Pilate,
let injustice take the stage,
turn our backs on fear and bloodshed
echoes of another age?
Will we watch them from a distance,
humans hanging out to dry,
or will we deride, forsake, them,
leaving them without a sigh?
3 Will we count our gains in secret,
leaving just a sordid kiss?
Will remorse and horror haunt us
selling such a life as this?
This is now our time of crisis
as we stand beneath the cross,
this is now the choice before us:
total gain, or utter loss.
Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
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Metre: 8 7 8 7 D
Tune: CALON LAN
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