Streams of Mercy

For months now, I’ve seen the same piece in Presbyterians Today.

The piece is two columns in yellow letters black background.

I CAN’T

JOG - Ahmaud Arbery (Georgia)

BIKE - Bryon Williams (Nevada)

PLAY - Tamir Rice (Ohio)

WALK - Elijah McClain (Colorado)

SLEEP - Breonna Taylor (Kentucky)

BREATHE - Eric Garner (New York) , George Floyd (Minnesota)

DRIVE - Philando Castile (Minnesota)

KNOCK - Renisha McBride (Michigan)

Beneath the columns is this paragraph:

“Just being Black in America can cost you your life – even when you’re doing

very ordinary things that most people take for granted.

‘Enough!’ we say. It’s time for us all to wake up to the reality of racism

and call it what it is: a sin and an outrage.

It’s time also to ask, ‘What can we do to help fix this once and for all?’”

(Jan-Feb 2021, Presbyterians Today)

One morning last week in the “Inspiring America” portion of NBC news, I

saw a little girl holding a sign with these words: “We can’t build a different

world with indifferent people.” So very true.

Let us pray asking God to move us from being “indifferent” people to being

“different” people, so that together we might build a different world.

Elizabeth