Living FaithNonviolence and Peace

A Hymn For People Called To Do More Than Sing and Pray

By Carolyn Winfrey Gillette
People react outside the Ssgt Willie de Leon Civic Center, where students had been transported from Robb Elementary School after a shooting, in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello
May 25, 2022
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God, our nation feels the loss / as our children pay the cost / for the violence we accept, / for the silence we have kept.

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People react outside the Ssgt Willie de Leon Civic Center, where students had been transported from Robb Elementary School after a shooting, in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello