Broken Nations - The Eagle and Child

This is such a maze we’re passing through

Danger on the every side

Let the petty riff raff shut our ears

And add to the great divide — sometimes

I can feel the daily gravity

Pulling toward the easy road

Where whatever gets me maddening

I’ll feel free to just let go

But you are over these broken nations

Though we’re avoiding the conversations

Help us to break through, help us to feel it

That we would reach in, just to relieve it

We’ve got the ghost, go reconcile

We can turn the night to day

Only getting better at welcoming

We’re too good at the turn away — ok

Why do we watch the widow weep?

And send back the prodigal son?

Church, has our action atrophied?

Or am I the only one?

Lord reveal your heart to your people

Until we stop the stabbing with your steeple

But you are over these broken nations

Though we’re avoiding the conversations

Help us to break through, help us to feel it

That we would reach in, just to relieve it

But you are over these broken nations

Though we’re avoiding the conversations

Help us to break through, help us to feel it

That we would reach in, just to relieve it