It's Faith In The Christian Hands Poem by Patricia Kelley

You can’t be a true red, white and blue American.
And not have it in your blood to be a Good Samaritan.
It’s part of the true American heritage.
It’s an American custom.
When you see a neighbor hungry,
You help feed them, so they don’t become angry.
Or despondent to life’s cruel circumstances,
You try to change their situation.
You don’t do it by being judgmental with persecution.
Where they feel like their only hope is moral execution.
You pray for a resolution.
When you see a sister or brother in need, you heed.
You meet it by a good Christian deed.
You plant your seed.
It can be by reaching out to a motherless child.
That needs mentoring and love to prevent them from turning wild.
It can be by standing and speaking up seeing the weakness in a hurting community.
It can be by reaching out to the homeless.
It can be by reaching out to a single mother.
It can be by reaching out to the fatherless.
You can change your community by taking notice.
You see what needs to be done.
You may be the only one.
That can make those needed changes.
If you see what needs to be done, and do nothing.
You may live to see your own hopelessness.
When you show compassion to the weak, and show true Christian sincerity.
You’re planting seeds for your own future.
That you’ll always be in God’s picture.
It can be, by being the eyes and soul of your community.
With this being Memorial Day weekend.
There’s no need to pretend.
There’s someone who’s hurting who no longer has a mother, father, sister or brother.
There’s someone hurting right now.
It could be in your own neighborhood, or across town.
It’s your responsibility to recognize a hurting nation.
And seeing and meeting the needs of a hurting community.
American people get their strength and ideas by God, and coming together.
This is when they realize they’re all sisters and brothers.
That they can do more with many hands to rebuild their land.
That there’s always a solution to a problem,
When they work with God’s extended hands.
The impossible, becomes possible.
It’s Christian faith in the American hands.
It’s doing what’s right.
In a child’s darkest hour,
You have the power.
To be that beacon of light!
In the darkest night!