We rise to remember that each one of us…. is a part of God’s heart, made in God’s image, worth of dignity and respect.
Jesus’ great invitation to rise in love continues today—for you and for all of us to join together in the Beloved Community of God here on earth."
— Paul Raushenbush, Together We Rise - An Easter Story For All of Us
For What You Find on the
Mountaintop
We thank you for allowing us
to journey up. That we would be able to see a place not just from within it but
from a distance is a gift we do not readily comprehend. Here, as we look out at
what seems as if it can fit in the palm of our hand, remind us of beauty’s
vastness. In this moment may we be both large and small. Remind us that beauty
isn’t merely for our consumption, but that it is something to be protected.
Grow in us a wonder that is willing to bow to the beauty of the natural world,
that it would be a path to humility and not ego. That we would understand it
does not exist for us, but it is our divine fortune that we would be moved by
it. And we are moved, God. May this view form us and keep us, as we allow our
souls to remain stirred when we return to the ground we’ve known. May it be so.
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-Cole
Arthur Riley, Black Liturgies
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For Beauty in the Mundane
God of every beautiful thing,
make us people of wonder. Show us how to hold on to nuance and vision when our
souls become addicted to pain, to the unlovely. It is far easier to see the
gloom and decay; so often it sings a louder song. Attune our hearts to the good
still stirring in our midst, not that we would give ourselves to toxic
positivity or neglect the pain of the world, but that we would be people
capable of existing in the tension. Grant us habits of sacred pause. Let us
marvel not just at the grand or majestic, but beauty’s name etched into every
ordinary moment. Let the mundane swell with a mystery that makes us breathe
deeper still. And by this, may we be sustained and kept from despair.
-Cole Arthur Riley, Black
Liturgies
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