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The pushing and shoving
of this world is endless
We are pushed and we are shoved.
And we do our fair share
of pushing and shoving
in our great anxiety.
And in the middle of that
You have set down Your beloved suffering Son
who was like a sheep led to slaughter
who opened not his mouth.
We seem not able,
so we ask You to create spaces in our life
where we may ponder His suffering
and Your summons for us to suffer with Him,
suspecting that suffering
is the only way to come to newness.
So we pray for Your Church
when we are driven to denial--
not to notice the suffering,
not to engage it,
not to acknowledge it.
So be that way of truth among us
that we should not deceive ourselves.
That we shell see that loss is indeed our gain.
We give you thanks for that mystery
from which we live.
Amen. |