Blessedness

Blessedness

Today I saw Christ
weeping
with migrant mothers
around wooden shacks
and burrows
where children learn little
except how to fight
or from their fathers
the way of despair
and lethal numbing toxins -
weeping

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord.
The glory of the One is real and lives in us all.

I saw Christ
gasping
for His breath in those churches
where superficial worshipers
provide lip-service justice to the hungry,
then drive home
to an overwhelming feast
and gaze at overpriced athletes -
gasping.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord.
The glory of the One is real and lives in us all.

I saw Christ
hoping
in the corridors of
our schools,
where the question
Why
is raised
and seeds of truth
worth living for and dying -
hoping.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord.
The glory of the One is real and lives in us all.

I saw Christ
struggling
in the home of
older America,
where the choice between
medicine and
food
leaves them poor and malnourished -
struggling.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord.
The glory of the One is real and lives in us all.

I saw Christ
enraged
in the face of doctrines
that churches promote
that separates
God from the creation,
leaving God’s children in the streets -
enraged.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord.
The glory of the One is real and lives in us all.

I saw Christ
dying
for the stranger
whom society
has deemed unworthy,
homeless and huddled
in a makeshift D.C. park shanty -
dying.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord.
The glory of the One is real and lives in us all.

​O Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,
Have mercy upon us.
O Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,
Have mercy upon us.
O Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,
Grant us Your peace.