God, when hope of peace is sullied
God, when hope of peace is sullied,
sown with hatred, fed with lies,
threaded through with blind rhetoric,
strengthen us and hear our cries.
Give us language to remodel
human values lost in dust
sharing through our conversation
lives of loving, living trust.
Take away all greed and grasping,
soothe our sorrow, meet our need,
help us as we seek to nurture
every bruised, or broken, reed.
May we see in every nation
siblings of a common birth,
seeing Christ in one another
sharing heritage and worth.
Words © 2025 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: ALL FOR JESUS
Written following President Trump’s meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, 28/2/2025.
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