What A View

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15 What A View

Written on Good Friday 1986, after watching reports of car bombings in Beirut, and remembering Salvador Dali’s painting of ‘St John of the Cross.’

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What a view!

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From there you can see for miles and miles and centuries.

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And you look with love and you look with loving tears.

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And when I think of all the pain we’ve caused each other through those

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years, I wonder how you still could see it through.

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What a view!

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You see us with our callous ways and muddled thoughts,

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Yet you love us and you call us back to you.

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And at your cross we find the grace to start again to care,

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To try again to love each other as you do.

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When you prayed, ‘Father forgive them!’ were you thinking of us too,

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Of the countless times that we would break your heart?

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What a view!

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You see us as your children and you know our need,

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And you will us to choose life and turn to you,

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For with the past forgiven, and the future by your side,

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We can look again and see the world anew.

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For you made us for each other, and you free us all to love,

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And through you we can see the goodness that’s still there.

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What a view! What view! What a view!