“O Lord, I love the house in which you dwell,
and the place where your glory abides.” Psalm 26:8
and the place where your glory abides.” Psalm 26:8
i will find you in
the homes
where the hungry
are welcomed
as sisters and
brothers,
and on the
playgrounds
where immigrant
kids share
the intricacies of
their childhood games;
i will hear you in
the assisted living apartments
as you sing love
songs to the lonely,
and in the
neighborhoods where justice
is being planted
in vacant lots
filled with broken
hopes and discarded dreams;
i will find you in
the hardened hearts
which sing
lullabies to the orphans
of the victims of
opioid greed,
and in the light
which shines
through the
cracked windows
of abandoned
houses to show
the forgotten the
way home.
© 2019 Thom M.
Shuman
