Peace Prayers for Juarez, Mexico…Sept 16, 2009
Reflection on the word “Justice” and Micah 6:8
Our Call…
Seek Justice
How will we seek justice … Lord as you require?
How will we seek justice … Lord as you desire?
To protest abuse of power,
we’ll face danger and arrest.
We will stand against aggression
and side with the oppressed.
May we seek your justice and love kindness
and walk humbly with you God.
How will we love kindness … Lord as you require
How will we love kindness … Lord as you desire
To the orphan, widow, stranger,
we’ll show hospitality.
We’ll befriend the outcast sinner,
and defend the refugee.
How will we walk humbly … Lord as you require
How will we walk humbly … Lord as you desire
We will not pretend to be, better than we are
We will not hide failure or cover up our scars
Looking outside ourselves…
NY Times, 9/3/09 CIUDAD JUÁREZ — Several masked men armed with automatic weapons stormed into a drug rehabilitation center in this violent border city on Wednesday night, lined up recovering drug addicts and alcoholics against a wall and opened fire at point-blank range, killing 17 people and wounding three…The upsurge of violence in Juárez, where rival gangs have been battling for the lucrative smuggling route to the United States, seems an open challenge to Mr. Calderón’s government, which has sent 10,000 troops and federal police officers to patrol the streets and retake control of the city from the traffickers…Despite the reinforcements, Juárez experienced the most violent month in its history in August, according to the local media, with at least 326 killings. That was almost half the homicides in all of Mexico for the month. And Juárez, Mexico’s most violent city in 2008 with 1,600 killings, is on pace to exceed that figure this year.
Poem: River Whose Streams Make Glad
Looking at God…
Trouble Won’t Go: Psalm 46
Trouble won't go, peace won't stay
Oceans roar, levees break
Trouble won't go, peace won't stay
Bridges fall, earth gives way
Ain't no refuge, but You my God
Ain't no safe place, but in Your arms
I'm gonna be still
Trouble won't go, peace won't stay
Land mines wait where children play
Trouble won't go, peace won't stay
In this old world, no safe place
Ain't gonna find, no place to hide,
but in You my God!
Looking inside ourselves…
Let’s Confess
LORD have mercy…
With Kindness
Christ has no body here but ours
No hands, no feet, here on earth but ours
Ours are the eyes though which he looks
On this world
With Kindness
Ours are the hands through which he works
Ours are the feet on which he moves
Ours are the voices through which he speaks
To this world
With Kindness
Through our touch, our smile, our listening ear
Embodied in us, Jesus is living here
Let us go now
Filled with the Spirit
Into this world
With Kindness
Share the Peace of Christ…
Go in Peace and Serve the Lord…
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