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After Pentecost     Pentecost 21     Luke 17:11-19, particularly verses 11-14

The Ten Lepers (YC No 221)

Can we get inside this story,

Try to think as lepers thought?

Totally despised, rejected;

Life for them was worse than naught.

Lepers were unclean, disfigured,

Outcasts, worthy of distain;

They were trash, not even human,

Their’s a life of constant pain.

So they shouted from a distance;

Too unclean to come too near;

“Jesus, Lord, You must have mercy;

Our whole life is full of fear!”

When he saw them he responded,

Not as one who did not care;

“Go and let the priests inspect you;

Throw away your deep despair.”

Jesus and his way of living

Dares us seek in everyway

To be gentle and be gracious

To the ‘lepers’ of today.

We can question in this story

All the lessons we can learn;

It has love and great compassion;

Jesus shows his great concern.

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