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“The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.”
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
I never know how to start during these moments. The space I have is so narrow, too narrow for all the thoughts and fears, memories and questions, sighs and wanderings. I want to be poetic. I want to be still. I want to be alone and comfortable. I want to cry. I want to sing. There is not time.
So I will simply start. I will turn to the pages of this yellowed book, favored and familiar pages with good stories. I will be present with the pages that tell my story – and all our stories. I will inhale the pages that breathe life, truth, and grace. And I will fall in my trembling place when the pages say, “Just stay where you are. I’m coming to get you.”
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“This is for everybody. It has to do with justice.”
~ Rev. Cecil Williams, Glide Memorial UMC, San Francisco
On a day when the old black-and-white footage of a marching, link-armed Martin Luther King, Jr. plays on every newscast…
On a day when segments of the old black-and-white speech “I have a dream” echo from radios, classrooms, and TV stations…
On a day when the old black-and-white ways are incredibly difficult to understand…
I remember King, an ordinary man. I remember what he cried out for. Something we all cry out for. Justice. Though, only a few in the pursuit are willing to live – and die – for it.
*In honor of the ordinary men and women who extraordinarily live and die for justice.
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