Collect for Reconciliation

Inspired by our Lenten Book Study of Stamped by Ibram Kendi and Jason Reynolds, our deacon-in-training, Andrea Hutnak, authored this collect for our prayers inspired by the authors’ imagery of the difficulty of toppling the enormous tree of racism with current tools that seem inadequate to the task:

God of love and justice, reconciliation and restoration, who shows us throughout so many stories in the Bible that no tree is too large and no axe too small: Remind us that it is only through working in community with the help of the Holy Spirit that we will one day fell the big tree of structural racism, and that by participating in that work we are participating in the building of your kingdom; through Christ our Lord. Amen. 

We commend it to our daily prayers!