Audre Lorde preaching to us this morning: “We know what it is to be lied to, and we know how important it is not to lie to ourselves. We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about — survival and growth.” 
“We who are Black are at an extraordinary point of choice within our lives,” she writes. “To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security or by despair. Each of us must find our work and do it.”
This reminds me so much of Jesus’s opening sermon. “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me.”
Wherever people work for a more loving and just world, a place of love and not shame, embracing hope and dismantling despair, the Spirit is there.
Wherever people work for a more loving and just world, a place of love and not shame, embracing hope and dismantling despair, the Spirit is there.
Jesus says he was anointed to preach good news to the poor, to proclaim release to the prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, to liberate the oppressed, and to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. That sermon is not his alone. We too share in that anointing.
Both Audre and Jesus blessed me this morning by reminding me that the world that we imagine should look much better than the world we inherit.
Inhale: I’m still here.
Exhale: Freedom is my inheritance.
Exhale: Freedom is my inheritance.
Reading and meditating on Luke 4 and this essay in Sister Outsider. Audre Lorde was so, so brilliant.
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