Lord, we sit in the comfort of our homes

Lord, we sit in the comfort of our homes
where we have space, and warmth and peace,
and often we don't want to know about the problems of others.
We put down the newspaper and turn off the television
when we see uncomfortable facts we'd rather not know.

Forgive us our lack of care and help us to understand
the real problems of those who have no proper home of their own ...
or no family to belong to ... or no friend to turn to.

Help us to move through understanding to action
So that we shall continually look for ways
by which we can help to bring about yor kingdom on earth.
Help us to use our time, our minds, our energies, our money
through work, through friendship and through community action,
to help those in this nation and elsewhere who are
without food or shelter or clothes
and therefore without hope.

An as wwe go about caring
may they find the God who is the source of all caring. Amen.

- Rowland Croucher
(In Still Waters Deep Waters)