Quiet Time: Racial Reconciliation

Dear God of Love and Justice, Luke 12:33 asks us to sell what we have and give to the poor — but Martin Luther understood that the deepest poverty is not always material. Sometimes the greatest poverty is being unseen, unheard, dismissed because of the color of your skin. Jesus calls us to empty our hands of the treasures we clutch — our comfort, our silence, our carefully curated ignorance — and fill them instead with the work of reconciliation.…