If we claim to love our neighbour
while the hungry queue for food,
are we prey to self deception?
Is perception quite so crude?
If we sit beside our neighbours,
begging for the things they need,
we might share their own injustice
in a world that thrives on greed.
Verses 2-3 follow
Metre 8.7.8.7.D
Tune: BETHANY (Smart)
Written during the Manchester & Stockport District Synod
(in response to a Joint Public Issues presentation by
Rachel Lampard & Paul Morrison).
The hymn was sung at the close of Synod.
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
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