Poor Children in Nicaragua
c. J. P. Mahon, 2006

Today’s opening reading is from the Book of Deuteronomy, “Moses said to the people:
“Today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom.” The way of doom is for us to continue to travel the road of doom—white privilege and racism. Racism is tearing this nation apart. Herschel Walker, a former UGA great and staunch Republican spoke strongly against the concept of reparations. He does a disservice to BIPOC Americans.
The way of prosperity is to walk the path of brotherhood and unity.
Trying to make sense of ashes yesterday, I decided to frame it this way when I imposed the ashes on my wife during a wonderful Zoom service from our church. “This is the cosmic dust which unites us with the Holy One, all others and the cosmos.”
We are all one—born of the same cosmic dust that flared forth at creation and brought about the incarnation of Christ—God became cosmic dust so that we could become godlike. My guidebook today tells us to abandon “white fragility.” We have to become comfortable with talking about racism if we are to move ahead.
This post is late today because our replacement refrigerator ordered in May finally came early this morning. COVID caused a shortage of more manufactured things than we can imagine. Then, came an urgent appeal from the local Democrat Party urging us to write legislators in GA who have about 9 bills in the mix in order to suppress voters. I sent 9 emails urging them not to suppress votes because the impact will fall disproportionately on BIPOC. We have to stand up and speak up when racism is at issue. We must choose life and prosperity! We are all one in the Holy One and the cosmos.