Holy One,

How long will we exploit those we depend on for healthcare, education, skilled labor, the food on our tables?
How long will we punish people for being poor in the system we created?
How long will we center and worship whiteness at the expense of everyone else?
How long will we lack shame for the violence we have done?

Knock us down from our thrones & lift up the lowly.
Send us away empty & fill the poor with good things.
Bind us together with the vulnerable, joining our fate to theirs.
Wake us, goad us until your love lives in us and acts through us, just as light must shine. Amen.

-Cynthia Robinson, Newark, DE