During this Lenten season, Abba’s House encourages you to pause and consider the least of these in our world. Refugees are some of the world’s most vulnerable people. This is a litany for refugees.* You can recite this quietly to yourself, or in a group setting with the leader reading the first line of each stanza, and the group reading the last stanza in unison. Then, without needing to say any words, just let your eyes dwell and notice whatever the Spirit stirs up in you.
Their feet are tired and aching
Lord, have mercy on their soles
Their backs are hunched and breaking
Lord, have mercy on their souls
We see them there, but too afraid to act
Lord, have mercy on our souls
They fight and hope and pray and scrap
Lord, have mercy on their souls
They come from afar, we don’t know their ways
Lord, help us to trust
We want to care, but it’s hard to share
Lord, help us to give
They’re made in your image, they’re your children too
Lord, help us to love
We’re called by faith beyond ourselves
Lord, help us to live
Lord, help us to see you in the face of
the sojourner
the wanderer
the shipwrecked
the lost boy
the widow
the orphan
the abandoned
the scorned
the displaced
THE REFUGEE
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