Daily Worship

Compassion in fragility

December 01, 2014 0 0

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