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Mark 8:31
8:31 Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

Hymn: All the pain and hurt and horror 

1	All the pain and hurt and horror, 
	loss, denial and mistrust, 
	hovered round as Jesus waited 
	for his friends to re-adjust.
	Lost within misunderstanding:
	thought that love was just a dream, 
	knew that it would be so easy, 
	they're confounded by Love's scheme.
	
2	Jesus taught that love would conquer 
	only through integrity, 
	that the way his life was pointing 
	tested his humanity.
	Jesus felt that Peter's challenge 
	undermined his purpose here, 
	spoke quite harshly, underlining, 
	made his need both plain and clear.
	
3	Death was now the final action,
	Jesus spelt out to his friends.
	To them this was not expedient, 
	not the way Messiah ends.
	Love would be denied if actions 
	led to violence or defence, 
	Jesus, lamb led to the slaughter, 
	death the cost of Love's expense.

Andrew Pratt 8/2/2012 Words © 2015 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd
Tune: LUX EOI
Metre: 8.7.8.7D

When words are spent and grief destroys compassion,
or fear of war throws shadows like a cross,
God melt our hearts and fire imagination,
that we might sense the pain within each loss.

This loss can blind our eyes and freeze our feeling,
can numb for us the pain of holocaust,
for memory fades, to leave just words revealing
a horror far beyond all human cost.

God open in our present generation,
a depth of human empathy to feel
humanity that bridges every nation,
that only love and hope and grace can seal.

Andrew Pratt 10/1/2023
Words © 2023 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Metre: 11.10.11.10
Tune: INTERCESSOR
https://www.methodist.org.uk/our-faith/worship/singing-the-faith-plus/posts/holocaust-memorial-day-2023/

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