Our Prayers

I wrote the words for this song back in 2015 for a book project that didn’t ultimately come together. I have revisited them again over the last several years. They can also be sung to the hymn tune - St. Columba

Our prayers are rising smoke and dust

Our prayers are ash and cinder

But still we pray 

For mercy more

As we to love surrender.

Our prayers are silenced by the wind 

Our prayers by floods are swallowed 

And still we pray 

For mercy more 

To rise up and to follow.

Our prayers lay bleeding in the street 

Our prayers die without a trace 

Lord, still we pray 

For mercy more 

To extend your hand of grace