When families are hurting and sometimes temper flares
When blood ties are unravelling, , you wonder just who cares
When those who should be closest no longer want to share
Dear Lord, please make a pathway to peace.
When nations rise against nations, and folks are thinking war
When diplomats are weary, nothing seems to work anymore
When black and white are fighting, the rich against the poor
Dear Lord, please make a pathway to peace.
When you lay in a manger the night the angels sang
Peace among men they said, the courts of heaven rang
When you saw in the future the cross from which you’d hang
You died to make a pathway of peace.
Peace to all men and nations, it is our prayer today
Peace in the midst of trial, for this O Lord we pray
From our hearts remove all malice, please take our hate away
And use our lives to create a pathway of peace.
© Joan Rowden Hart July 2017
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