What next Lord?
How many more victims?
Victims of terror
Victims of neglect
Victims of greed
Victims of violence
What next Lord?
How many more grieving?
Crying children
Searching parents
Devastated communities
Broken bodies
What next Lord?
Where can we go to hide?
Where has safety gone?
Where are the restful waters?
Where are the quiet havens?
What next Lord?
Lord it is too much already.
We are tired and numbed
We cannot give much more
Even the source of our tears runs dry
What next Lord?
Child, look next to me.
Drink from my deep wells of compassion
Bathe wounds with my waters
Weep with my tears
Wait in my garden
Mourn at my tomb
Look to the dawn.
Thank you Ruth. That is beautiful amidst so much horror, and reminds us of the hope Christ offers a hurting world.
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