Better Than a Calm Façade
MELITA
(Eternal Father, Strong to Save)
A Hymn for October 20, 2019
based on Luke 18:1-8
It's quite all right to bother God!
That's better than a calm façade,
Or resignation of your lot,
For Jesus says the one who's got
The gumption not to knuckle under
Lives with real faith and wonder.
God’s justice, always, God intends,
Although we may not comprehend
The schedule! Thus, the widow's might
Is in her cry the judge make right -
Which teaches us to fight despair
By voicing what becomes real prayer.
The universe’s moral arc
Is long, but let us all now hark
To Christ, who by love God did send,
Since justice toward that arc still bends;
Now work and pray, and cry and plead,
For God forsakes not those in need.
Scott L. Barton
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