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Here's another song that hits home to me on this subject:

Jesus

When we love the least

When we love the weak

When we love these

We love Jesus

Jesus brings a meal for tips

Jesus trying hard to quit

Jesus raising two alone

Jesus drives a heavy load

When we love the least

When we love the weak

When we love these

We love Jesus

Jesus with worn wrinkled hands

Jesus sows a patch of land

Jesus hides a tattooed arm

Jesus keeping dinner warm

When we love the least

When we love the weak

When we love these

We love Jesus

Jesus waves a foreign flag

Jesus wrings a washing rag

Jesus leans on prison bars

Jesus swinging in my yard

When we love the least

When we love the weak

When we love these

We love Jesus

Interestingly, the original lyric was "Jesus turns another trick" instead of "Jesus brings a meal for tips", point being that when you take Christ's words to heart about "whenever you do this to the least of these, you do it to Me", you realize that opportunities to see Jesus and minister to Him are bumping into you all over the place.  But it's so much easier to see Jesus in the faces of our children, or in famous Christians like Mother Teresa, or in people we know and love than it is to see Jesus when we see a prostitute, or a convict, or someone doing "menial" jobs, or a foreign soldier.  Yet, this is what Jesus tells us.

The "turns another trick" line was a little too hot for Christian retailers, so it ended up being rewritten because while the writer loved the imagery (and still does), the point of the song could still be made without it and he didn't want the message to not be heard at all because of the jitters of a few gatekeepers.  Sad but true.

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"Turns another trick" could rock some worlds. Who's the artist/writer?

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