FACTS AND IMPRESSIONS

 

 

The Agony of God

I listen to the agony of God---

I who am well fed,

Who never went hungry for a day.

I see the dead---

The children starved for lack of bread---

I see and try to pray.

I listen to the agony of God---

I who am warm,

Who never yet have lacked a sheltering home.

In dull alarm

The dispossessed of hut and farm,

Aimless and "transient" roam.

I listen to the agony of God---

I who am strong,

With health, and love, and laughter in my soul.

I see a throng

Of stunted children reared in wrong,

And wish to make them whole

I listen to the agony of God---

But know full well

That not until I share their bitter cry---

Earth’s pain and hell---

Can God within my spirit dwell

To bring his kingdom nigh.

Georgia Harkness

"I inherited a belief that, in the very radical sense of the gospels, all men were equals as children of God, and should be met and treated by us as our masters."

Dag Hammarskjold

Do these 20^th century expressions make sense in the 21^st?

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