![]() ![]() Amen.Ĭreator God, we come into your presence this morning with hearts of thanksgiving, In the Name of the first strange fruit hanging from the tree, the crucified Christ, we pray. ![]() So that together we might glimpse, if only from a distance for now, the possibility of the Kin-dom of God where all are seen to reveal the image of God as we live in God’s justice and peace. May those of us who have benefited from systems of injustice seek forgiveness from those of us who have broken by those systems. Christ have mercy on us.Ĭonfessing our sinful natures, we pray for your Spirit to begin the long hard work of repentance within and between us, and tear down the dividing walls of hostility so that we may begin to sow to the Spirit of reconciliation and begin the long, hard journey to forgiveness and peace. And your church is complicit in sowing a system of injustice, our hands are not free of the blood and our hearts are not free of the hate. As we gaze upon the strange fruit that we have produced we must know in our hearts and souls that this is not random mutation of our planting, but the result of years of sowing in blood and hate. ![]() So now, as we bow our heads into the force of the whirlwind, we must know deep down that this is not a momentary aberration or accident of the changing of the wind. Your prophet Hosea warned us that if we sow the wind, we shall reap the whirlwind. Your servant Paul warned us that as we sow, so shall we reap. Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees “Strange Fruit” by Abel Meeropol, popularized by Billie Holiday:īlood on the leaves and blood at the rootīlack bodies swinging in the southern breeze ![]()
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