Oh God! Why did you have to die?

and leave us to our own devices,

devoid of restraint and fuelling vices,

Jesus rose and left us behind, his words

of love and reconciling abound,  hope

lay fallow as they hid and coped,

your Spirit came and filled a few, as

wind and flame through them blew,

your word revived and led them out.

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Oh God! Why did you have to go

and let us learn harshness and pain?

over and again.