Make Room

Make room in your heart for the lonely, for the broken heart to find hope

Make room in your heart for the homeless, with no place or shelter to call home

Make room in your heart for the weary, create a space in which they can find rest

Make room in your heart for the thirsty, giving them Water to be refreshed

Make room in your heart for the broken, being patient with their many wounds

Make room in your heart for the ignorant with knowledge you can groom 

Make room in your heart for the exhausted, carrying burdens meant for two

Make room in your heart for the oppressed, through your privilege to make a way through

This is not a fight to be fought an eye for an eye

For this fight is to be fought counterintuitively

But to deny the plight of difference 

Is to gouge out your eyes to forcefully unsee

Jesus penetrated humanity

Tearing down social barriers as deadly as race

God became human embodied

So that justice has a face

So make room... in your mind to wrestle with the ideas that challenge your lived realities

Make room in your mind to war with your convenient blindnesses in which your privilege affords the opportunity

Make room in your mind to understand, although you may not fully understand

Make room in your mind to take inventory of all beliefs you hold onto with an iron hand

Make room in your heart to wrestle with discomfort — forfeit your right to what is “safe”

Make room in your heart to see pass your feelings or even looking (in)sane

Make room in your heart to find common ground with the oppressed for that is the Jesus way

Empathy is sorely needed in this present day