While in Egypt, the Israelites built bricks day after day after day.  Seven days a
week for 52 weeks a year for over 400 years they made bricks in the hot, hot
Egyptian sun while slave drivers violently kept them on task.  But God saw
their suffering and pain and God sent help.

Through a burning bush in the wilderness, God called Moses to confront Pharaoh and lead
the Israelites from slavery to freedom and eventually to the promised land.
Every year at Passover, Jewish people tell this story of liberation and freedom
and they remember that God still sees our pain and sends healing.

The hymn reflects this very idea.  Take time to use these words as a prayer
and find hope in this promise: that God sees our suffering and can bring peace
beyond our sorrow.

Refrain: Healer of our every ill,
Light of each tomorrow,
give us peace beyond our fear,
and hope beyond our sorrow.

1. You who know our fears and sadness,
grace us with your peace and gladness.
Spirit of all comfort, fill our hearts (Refrain)

2. In the pain and joy beholding
how your grace is still unfolding,
give us all your vision, God of love (Refrain)

3. Give us strength to love each other,
every sister, every brother.
Spirit of all kindness, be our guide (Refrain)

4. You who know each thought and feeling,
teach us all your way of healing.
Spirit of compassion, fill each heart. (Refrain)

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