Summoned and sent
By Jennie Gordon
St. Margaret’s Uniting Church, Mooroolbark
is the problem
that we can’t make it work
we can’t fix it;
so we give up
resigned to keep on
watching wandering sheep
or have we
become numb;
hard hearts
unmoved, but beating
deaf to the misplaced flock’s
harassed and helpless
bleating
summon us again
call us out by name
the same
as when we dived
into baptismal waters
and became
your sons and daughters
speak into
our stuck and static souls
with simple clout
so we can love with your love
and shepherd the captives out