Thank you for today, God. Thank you for a day that our nation stops to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr., the man on whose shoulders the Civil Rights movement turned. Has there been a man more like Moses, sent by God to deliver his people from oppression? I think you for this celebration today, but God, we are so far from the promised land that he saw before violent death. We are so far from a dream realized. God bring reconciliation. Break walls, mend hearts of generational bitterness, of the system of prejudices and expectations that make our country comfortably divided. Let us find a way to celebrate diverse cultures together, without ostracism, without judgement.
And God, tomorrow we celebrate again a great achievement for black Americans, but I am firmly convinced that it is only your Church -- it is only your Spirit that can unify, that can mend broken relationships, cross racial divides. God, use your Church to connect black and white, city and suburb in ways otherwise unimaginable.
Amen.
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