Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Mercy

“Show us mercy, Son of David.”    --Matthew 9:27

 Show us mercy, Son of David
   for we are blind and do not know the way forward.
Show us mercy, Son of David
  for darkness envelops us today.
Show us mercy, Son of David
   when we use scripture to justify sin and excuse our callousness.
Show us mercy, Son of David
   when our blindness is so deep
   that we call the bad good
   and the good bad.
Show us mercy, Son of David
   when we do not see the log in our own eye.

Show us mercy, that we may learn mercy,
   that we may love mercy,
   that we may show mercy
      to the hungry and the hurting,
      to the sick and the homeless,
      to the prisoner and the outcast,
      to the privileged and the proud.

Show us mercy, Son of David
   until we become mercy.

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