18. April 2021
O Jesus, we made you a baby that didn’t cry, / We made you a boy with good manners, / We made you a man, sweet and gentle. / We tossed you pennies, / Then told you how to spend them. / We built you temples, / Then told you who could enter them. / We made you wood and plastic and concrete / And locked you in the church. / We made you a goody-goody god / And stood before the world with joyless faces / and pointing fingers / and tsk-tsk-tsk cold voices, / declaring thou-shalt-nots. / O Lord! We paid no attention to Who You Are: the Lord of Life! / Forgive us. / Amen.
Ann Weems, The Lord of Life 1980