Where Is The Love?

When we treat our faith as nothing more than a self-help system

and You, God, as simply a cure for whatever ails us,

Where is the love?

When we use the gifts our planet gives us

with little care for our wastefulness and destruction,

Where is the love?

When we deny and disdain truths and practices

that others hold dear,

Where is the love?

When we ignore the sickness, the loneliness,

the struggle and the vulnerability of others,

because it doesn’t affect us,

Where is the love?

When we berate ourselves for our failures,

or holds ourselves to impossible and trivial standards

Where is the love?

Forgive us, Lord,

and teach us and our world

what it really means

to love.