Hymn: A mirage, nothing more
Proper 17 Year A
Jeremiah 15: 15 – 21
A mirage, nothing more,
that’s how God often seems,
for even though we keep the faith,
is God a God of dreams?
We pray by night and day,
but answers seem remote,
and then detractors laugh at us,
make fun of us and gloat.
We’ve done our very best,
at least that’s what we thought,
and yet you’ve left us, lost, bereft,
without the God we sought...
Tune: ASCENSION(Gauntlett), FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH
28 August 2011, Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Jeremiah 15: 15 – 21, hymn,
God, absence of God, mirage, faithfulness, grace, bereft, lost, detractors, gloat
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
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