Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Meter: 11.10.11.10 D Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Alienation; Compassion; Confession; Diversity; Hospitality; Injustice; Invitation; Marginalized; Poverty; Prisoners; Suffering; Worth of All Persons Lyrics: 1 Leftover people in leftover places,
troubled, disabled, the needy and sad,
scavenging crumbs from society's plenty,
sick to the soul when their life has gone bad;
these are the ones in God's upside-down kingdom
deemed to be worthy and called to the feast,
soup-kitchen people invited to banquet,
valued as greatly as royal and priest.
2 Leftover people, disposable people,
locked into prisons of drugs and despair,
poverty's children in poverty's spiral,
locked out of learning and earning their share;
these are the ones in God's upside-down kingdom,
these are the Christ in their shabby disguise,
these are the least and the highly unlikely,
given a hope and new light in their eyes.
3 Here is God's testing of true Easter people,
spirited people with service to give,
taking to heart the compassion of Jesus,
feeling how others must struggle to live;
we are a part of God's upside-down kingdom,
we know the heart if the gospel's demand,
taking our part with the leftover people,
widening the space of the lines in the sand. Scripture: Matthew 25:31-45 Used With Tune: CONNECT
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