They’re
carted off like cattle,
yet
we’d refuse a bed
to
those who flee from carnage
now
drowned, or lost or dead?
Christ
said accept the stranger,
how
can we bar the door
to
those both poor and hungry
who
wait beyond our shore.
How
can we guard our comfort
or
fear what we might lose
when
those who are more needy,
we
punish and abuse.
God,
must we wait for judgment?
Will
nothing change our face
from
sneering denigration
to
smiles of love and grace?
Good
God forgive the selfish,
the
ones who bind the free,
who
now withhold salvation.
Begin
right now with me!
©
Andrew Pratt 28/8/2015
Reported
this morning - 70 found dead in a lorry in Austria.
Tune:
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