Good
Shepherd,
let us hear you
in the beauty of the world,
in your poor, and in one another,
on the rocky and rough roads we travel.

Please pick us up
when our legs can walk no more.
Pull us from the brambles that snarl us.

Good Shepherd,
 hold us close, in your arms.

Speak to our
hearts.

Let us carry your light, your tidings, your beauty, your delight
to every nation, to every people who hunger for true life.
Transform us into love every minute of our being:
in how we live, what we do, whom we love;
every one of our days, in every season,
throughout all of our years
 till the end of your
time.

Dorothy Day,
 Gandhi, Oscar Romero:
they knew your hunger and thirst
as you filled the hearts of each poor one
throughout this world.

They are the
 love you
use
to
wipe
 away 
every tear 
upon every face.
 
Let us love you
 as they
 did.

Let us
 lay down our
 lives for our friends.