Friends, this has been a tragic time for us all as we have endured many combinations of stress that could not be accounted for in advance. While I do not know how you are sustaining yourselves and your commitments during this time, I do know this quick prayer will bring comfort to your chaos. Enjoy To all that is chaotic…
Immediately upon hearing news of George Floyd’s murder, I felt myself holding my breath. It wasn’t until a week or so later–when I read the Medium article of a Duke Divinity School colleague–that I was able to exhale (just a little) for the first time… IN WEEKS
If I am honest, my opening to this has been colored by a number of things. Namely, my own blackness. In white spaces, I think too much for “the colored” people. I think of us *as* coloured people. I do too much in my mind to correct for what I think is the bias of other races while altogether realizing it is my own bias at fault here. I am not here removing the external biases that do exist, yet I am stating the fact that it is hard enough to live while black without adding the over-correction (or over-calculation) that I feel the need to do because of my race.