Another day, Lord God, just another day.
Today faith leaders met to plan to a response to the upcoming KKK rally in my town. Today members of Congress were shot while practicing baseball. Today in London an apartment building was consumed by flames. Today many will go hungry, addiction will claim more lives and war won’t cease. Division. Death. Suffering. Just another day.
Just another day?
Prayers written on paper and folded into cranes will be made, displayed to counter a message of hate. Just another day.
Just another day?
We will link arms and span the breach between those donning white sheets and black lives that matter. Just another day.
Just another day?
We will pray and open our arms in welcome to all, even as we turn our backs on evil.
Just another day, Lord. Just another day.
We will meet and eat together, we will worship and sing, committed to building relationships of trust no matter how long it takes.
Lord, just help us through another day. Just give us one more day.
We will attempt to look at those across the table and across the aisle and across town and across the globe and see your image, God.
Just today, Lord, help us see your image in each other just today and then just another and another.
We will ask: Is today just another day filled with our thoughts and prayers or is it the day we couple them with acts of mercy, demonstrations of love and the difficult, unending work of reconciliation?
Another day, Lord God, just another day in which the world’s need for ambassadors of your grace is painfully obvious.
Grant us the courage to not allow this to be just another day of pain and acrimony, but the first day of the rest of our days in which we strive for justice, seek peace and show the world we are Christians through our love.
Make today just another day to stand up to death with your unstoppable resurrection power, until Christ comes again.
Amen.
