We Grieve the Many Thousands

We Grieve the Many Thousands written by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, sung by Rev Dr Ginny Brown Daniel, our Missouri Mid-South Conference Minister

We Grieve the Many Thousands

PASSION CHORALE 7.6.7.6 D (“O Sacred Head, Now Wounded”)

We grieve the many thousands —

yet we can’t understand;

we cannot grasp how many

have died throughout this land.

We cannot see their faces

or hear the stories told

of all the ways they blessed us —

the young ones and the old.

O God, we grieve the struggle of those who died alone —

so far from friends and neighbors, from all they’d ever known.

We grieve for precious people

who could not say good-bye;

we weep for those, now mourning, who sit alone and cry.

O God, we grieve for millions

who now are unemployed

who cannot feed their families — whose hope has been destroyed.

We grieve that needed workers must worry for their health

while some with lives of privilege stay home and build their wealth.

O God of love and mercy,

we cry to you, “How long?”

In troubled times remind us:

Your love is ever strong.

Now as we grieve the suffering, Lord, show us how to be

A healing, loving presence

in each community.