Poem/Prayer for Worship
by Thom Shuman

Through Us

if we would be your people,
Blessed God,
we must look in the windows of the world:
   to see as you see,
   to love as you love,
   to act as you act.

through us, you would
   stand by the poor,
   rescuing them    
   at the beginning of their distress,
   not when they are
   at the end of their hope.

through us, you would
   side with the oppressed,
   and challenge us
   to release them    
   from their tyranny and torture.

through us, you would
   speak for the voiceless,
   and call the powerful
   to meek and lowly lives.

through us,
you would . . .

Beloved Holy One:
   help us to be doers,
       not just hearers
   of your heart.    

(c) 2006  Thom M. Shuman 

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