# Living Psalm 80:1-2, 8-19_Mankin for August 17, 2025
Let Us Be Saved

Let us be saved, Sweet God
who moves through the wind
and carries us the cries 
of hungry babes.

Lend us your strength, 
Fiery Voice of Heaven;
Ignite us like dry brush 
burning for justice.

Reveal to us, Majestic Gardener,
the paths that you have laid,
that we might dig our hands deep
in the dirt and clear away every weed
choking the life from your tender growth.

Let us be saved, Enduring God,
from the fear that leaves us cold
when we see the children fall 
again at our feet.

Lend us your strength,
Inferno of paradise;
let the fight in us not sputter and die
in the face of daily carnage.

Reveal in us, Beloved Shepherd,
your glorious Love;
let it overflow our frail frames
and run through the streets
until we are bathed in grace,
stirred to see each and every face
as a member of Your cherished flock.

Let us be saved, Sweet God,
who moves through the wind,
always at our backs , always
a whisper of radical peace.