Compassion in fragility
December 01, 2014
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Psalm 13:1-6
1 How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
and day after day have sorrow in my heart?
How long will my enemy triumph over me?3 Look on me and answer, Lord my God.
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,
4 and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”
and my foes will rejoice when I fall.5 But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.
6 I will sing the Lord’s praise,
for he has been good to me.
Song (based on Psalm 13)
How long, O Lord, will you quite forget me?
How long, O Lord, will you turn your face from me?
How long, O Lord, must I suffer in my soul?
How long, how long, O Lord?
(© The Iona Community, in ‘Heaven Shall Not Wait’, 1987)
Prayer
Compassionate God,
walk with us who live with HIV or AIDS;
weep with us who live with ebola or other incurable diseases;
keen and wail with us who grieve over a loved one gone;
and lest we forget, turn our face, or walk on the other side of the road;
disturb, cajole and transform us who would rather forget all who suffer.
Amen
By Ruth Harvey
Place For Hope
www.placeforhope.org.uk
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