1 Truly God is good to all those who are seeking love
2 But I will admit, sometimes I have tripped on my journey, I’ve almost fallen off the path more than once not understanding the cry Black Lives Matter.
3 For I have seen the siren call of white privilege, I saw how those in power prosper calling themselves “great.” I have forgotten that i too benefit from a racist system.
4 Those White Supremacists admit no pain, ever, they have doctors and massages and rest. They can completely ignore the pandemic that ravages the communities of color.
5 They are not troubled by other people. They go around unmasked, breathing on everyone. For they do not have to deal with, what I have to deal with. They can ignore the pain of the world.
6. They decorate themselves with pride being “the greatest.” They dress themselves in a fine suit of violence. Making it seem beautiful.
7. Their eyes bulge with their privilege, their hearts allow them to speak feelings as facts.
8 They scoff and speak with malice and threats to all who disagree. Loftily & carelessesly they threaten oppression, so normal is it for them.
9They set their mouths against God, and their tongues spread the disease and oppression all of the earth.
10 People turn and praise them, and cannot (no matter what) find fault with them.
11 They say “God won’t know” or “Truly power and Jesus are on the same side; MAGA”
12 Such are the wicked, comfortable with evil, as they increase their riches from a pandemic, poverty and racism.
13. I have tried to keep my heart clean: but bigotry is insidious. I try to wash my hands from the pandemic, but I must expose myself to others.
14 We small people are plagued, punished everyday by our context.
15 But if I say “all lives matter” or “church is more important than flattening the curve” I would have been untrue to the circle of your children.
16 But when I thought about how to understand what is going on. I immediately become overwhelmed.
17 then I put my sanctuary in God, instead. It is then I see how they will end.
18 You are setting them in slippery places of lies of their own making. You will make them fall to ruin.
19 They will be destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by errors.
20 They will be like a dream when one awakes–a footnote in the history of God’s love–and upon awaking you despise their phantoms
21 When my soul we bitter, before I understand, you pricked my heard
22 I was stupid and ignorant, with microaggressions and resting on my privilege that we will never experience a pandemic, or tyranny, or widespread racism, or riots
23 Luckily, you continue to be with me, and you hold my hand as I walk
24 You guide me with your Holy Spirit, and after you will welcome me home with open arms
25 Why do I desire heaven? For you God. There is nothing I desire more than Jesus.
26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is my strength of my heart, and claims me as God’s own.
27 Indeed those who are far from you will perish, you put an end to all that is false.
28 But for me, it is good to be near my God; I have made the Lord God my refuge.
And I will not fear to seek justice and tell of your works.
Feel free to use or Adapt with Credit to Pastor Katy Stenta
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