“Prayer heals all wounds.” ~ Author unknown Dear God, Word of all words, and the Mystery that makes sense of us all, I believe that I am not a racial being, that I am made in Your image and not that of stereotypes, that I am part mystery and consequently, cannot be solved by race. […]
“We are trapped in history and history is trapped in us,” James Baldwin said. Perhaps, it is time to remove the snare, to be free to live in the moment. To receive the present as a gift of newness. While I am certainly one who loves history, reflection and meditating on words of old, I […]
I have heard persons say that we have seen this before, that we have heard these police accounts and witness statements before, that we have heard the President, politicians and news personalities make these same arguments before. Again. It is a troubling word when used in sentences involving the untimely death of a teenager. An […]
“I’ve decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” ~ Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. “If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.” ~ […]
“Christianity has been almost sentimental in its effort to deal with hatred in human life. It has sought to get rid of hatred by preachments, by moralizing, by platitudinous judgments. It has hesitated to analyze the basis of hatred and to evaluate it in terms of its possible significance in the lives of people possessed […]