What a blessing during this winter to be participating in a Sacred Ground group following the curriculum of the Episcopal Church’s antiracism program. We are reading Howard Thurman’s seminal work Jesus and the Disinherited which helps to put Jesus front and center as a Jew within a Roman occupation. And thinking about how the Church has gone from the teachings of a dispossessed and marginalized man to an organization that has been used to control and undermine peoples. So much to struggle with but also so much hope and beauty. That the church can simultaneously be used to marginalize and control but that every day people continue to still see the words of succor and purpose that is contained in our Bible.

In Exodus when God says to Moses that he will send him to bring the Israelites out of Egypt, Moses says “Who am I?”, he is God’s chosen. When we stand on this sacred ground we are all chosen to bring our peoples out of degradation and into fellowship. We are all asked to gather together in God’s name and to worship together. As Fr Grey said to us last week, this ground remains holy when we continue to gather and be together, bringing life and through fellowship.

As we approach Easter and the resurrection we must continue to see how we use our talents to maintain the sacred ground and support the Word of Jesus in all our interactions.