written for prison, but it’s too abstract to use with the men in the unit i’m in on thursday…
We live in a world where hope is dangerous
and where waiting is painful
where too many pregnancies end with stillbirth
and every promise seems fated with despair.
If the prison were to hang Christmas lights
in the dark corners of its life
they’d be shaped in the words
‘why?’
and ‘not this!’
and ‘enough.’
We know it’s better to have no hope than false hope,
so this Christmas, God,
may we ask of you nothing you cannot do:
give us courage to wait in the darkest places,
and hold faith for us that love might be born there again.
Hi,
There’s an article in the most recent edition of Sojourners on the online segregation of Christians. The author basically calls it the online equivalent of Dr. King’s quote, “the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning”. I thought you might want add your thoughts by blogging on this issue.
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&article_mode=edit&issue=soj0901&article=the-new-digital-divide
Rakiesha Chase