STEP: STudent Ecumenical Partnership

Purity Behold

Purify your beastly body
With a showering spring
Cleanse your unsatisfied soul
With grinding knees to the ground
Lifted Hands to the sorrowing sky
Guiding from your bountiful belief and far faith
As well as Will

Dirty dusty earth
Unhealthy untamed animals
Avenging their own creation
Their purpose in our ludicrous lives
Whom do they seek
Without a strong truth
Whom do we seek
Without a glass maimed mind
Perhaps yourself
When all is foolishly free
Can existence exist
as it is to be.

We Are Not Created Equal

We are not created equal
We live in areas of the world that gives us an advantage
And to others a disadvantage
To those that have been raised to live in fear
From father, mother, neighbor, friend, blacks, whites,
And so much more.

We are lucky to live the way we do
almost too lucky with such greed and selfishness
While others suffer every second
From disease, drugs, murder, starvation,
And again so much more.

How will we be taught that there are people suffering
if so many of us are ignoring them?

The people who lay sleepless in the streets at night
The people that avidly wash your windows in the middle of the street
The people with bruises and bleeding cuts on their faces
The people with open sores and lesions

We are not created equal

But God has given each and every single person the greatest gift of all,
The gift of Choice
And it is with Choice that we choose
to Live in Faith and Hope,
and to Love ourselves and others.

The Life

God has given us the life to love,
Jesus has shown us how to love.
God has given us the grace to forgive,
And Jesus has shown us how to forgive.
God has given us our beautiful surroundings,
And Jesus has shown us how to take care of it.
He has led me in a path,
full of righteousness and choice,
Never once have I doubted his existence
That lives in me and breathes in me every moment of the day.
When all is lost He is still there
and He will never leave
Any of us alone.

Thank you for giving me the faith to believe
And to live in your presence
For you are the reason why I am alive.

A student at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Danica Lute is a member of the Student Ecumenical Partnership (STEP) Leadership Team and is a member of United Church of Christ, Lana'i, Hawai'i.



		Purity Behold Purify your beastly body With a showering spring Cleanse your unsatisfied soul With grinding knees to the ground Lifted Hands to the sorrowing sky Guiding from your bountiful belief and far faith As well as Will Dirty dusty earth Unhealthy untamed animals Avenging their own creation Their purpose in our ludicrous lives Whom do they seek Without a strong truth Whom do we seek Without a glass maimed mind Perhaps yourself When all is foolishly free Can existence exist as it is to be. We Are Not Created Equal We are not created equal We live in areas of the world that gives us an advantage And to others a disadvantage To those that have been raised to live in fear From father, mother, neighbor, friend, blacks, whites, And so much more. We are lucky to live the way we do almost too lucky with such greed and selfishness While others suffer every second From disease, drugs, murder, starvation, And again so much more. How will we be taught that there are people suffering if so many of us are ignoring them? The people who lay sleepless in the streets at night The people that avidly wash your windows in the middle of the street The people with bruises and bleeding cuts on their faces The people with open sores and lesions We are not created equal But God has given each and every single person the greatest gift of all, The gift of Choice And it is with Choice that we choose to Live in Faith and Hope, and to Love ourselves and others. The Life God has given us the life to love, Jesus has shown us how to love. God has given us the grace to forgive, And Jesus has shown us how to forgive. God has given us our beautiful surroundings, And Jesus has shown us how to take care of it. He has led me in a path, full of righteousness and choice, Never once have I doubted his existence That lives in me and breathes in me every moment of the day. When all is lost He is still there and He will never leave Any of us alone. Thank you for giving me the faith to believe And to live in your presence For you are the reason why I am alive. A student at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Danica Lute is a member of the Student Ecumenical Partnership (STEP) Leadership Team and is a member of United Church of Christ, Lana'i, Hawai'i.