This was downloaded from Facebook. Carolyn Winfrey Gillette wrote the hymn in response to seeing a security guard weep after a husband and father swept of the street in front of his wife and child.
A NEW HYMN-PRAYER IN RESPONSE TO AN ICE ARREST
Your Little Ones Are Suffering
PASSION CHORALE (“O Sacred Head, Now Wounded”)
Your little ones are suffering from evil things we do.
So, Lord, we pray for children, for youth and families, too.
A girl cries for a loved one who’s just been ripped away.
And so a mighty millstone is ours to wear this day.
Her mother can’t console her; her dad has disappeared.
The land we love has told her, “There is no mercy here.”
We see the things that happen; we sigh, and let them go.
A heavy-weighted millstone— our guilt— is bound to grow.
The harm comes from ignoring— participating, too.
When we look back on suffering, will we admit we knew?
God, where is our compassion, that we would let this be?
And now we wear the millstone— and none of us are free.
When nations harm the children you’ve placed within our care,
Lord Jesus, you give warning to people everywhere.
And when we show compassion, and mercy, love and grace,
We’ll all know peace and freedom together in this place.
Biblical References: Leviticus 19:33-34; Zechariah 7:9-10; Matthew 18:6; Deuteronomy 10:19; Matthew 25:31-46; Hebrews 13:2 and many others.
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