bid me rise

 

Mark 5:21–43 

 

when I am ‘sleeping’,

Jesus take me by the hand

and bid me, rise. 

 

when illness lays me low,

a day, a week, a lifetime: 

Jesus take me by the hand

and bid me, rise. 

 

when grief breaks my heart,

and weeping fills my nights and days,

Jesus take me by the hand

and bid me, rise. 

 

when despair, depression, anxiety

stop me from living well,

Jesus take me by the hand

and bid me, rise. 

 

when I am homeless, when I am poor,

when I am friendless and alone,

Jesus take me by the hand

and bid me, rise. 

 

when I am ‘sleeping’, 

Jesus take me by the hand

and bid me, rise. 

Amen