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A Prayer for Black History Month
By Administrator | February 12, 2008
Pastoral Prayer 2.10.08
God who sides with all who are oppressed on this side of Eden,
We gather before you this morning in the middle of Black History Month. A time set aside for us to recognize the amazing role that African-Americans have played in our lives, in our history, in our culture. Ignored for the greater part of our history this is the time we look back and take grasp of the wondrous works, you dear, God, have done through human beings that other humans oppressed, enslaved and held down. Guide us to hear your call, your tears and your shouts for us to never again embrace or ignore the ugliness of such inhumanity to humanity that we now see in those grave injustices. Guide us also to hear the incredible power in acts of love and justice for those African-Americans who, while tyrannized, found a way to be your instruments in the world, and for those, whether African- American or not, who did not stand idly by, but, sought to be your instruments as well.
We are grateful, and thank you still for your courageous and compassionate agents; people like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, W. E. B. DuBois, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. Coretta Scott King and many, many others.
We are especially grateful for the miracle of a vote in Alabama this week. Alabama, the home of great oppression in many of our lifetimes, this week nominated a Black man as their Democratic candidate for president of the United States. No matter what side of the aisle we are on in politics this is a great sign, a sign of how far we have come, and how far we can go. It is a sign of your work in the world.
God, help us hear your call to continue to better the world and vanquish racism and oppression of all kinds. Guide us to learn from Black History Month that you can do your work in those the world may see as unworthy, because all, all, humans are worthy in your eyes. And all, all oppression is ungodly.
In the name of Jesus, the greatest opponent of oppression this world has ever known, AMEN
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