The challenge as ever is how do we become part of the healing?
It was the breakout room in Zoom. I had joined the Pendle Hill meeting for worship and after we were done we went into breakout groups. There were five of us. It went from meeting with near on a 100 people to just the five of us. In the fifteen minutes that we had, we reflected on the death of George Floyd which was the concern of the main meeting.
I was the only one outside our group from the US and could hear in what they shared echoes of stories I would hear in Northern Ireland (NI) 30 years ago. It felt like the conflict was between Black America and White America. Just like the line of division in NI was a conflict between NI Catholics and NI Protestants. Of course, everything is more complex than it seems, ‘it is not as simple as that’.
The challenge as ever is how do we become part of healing?
Best day,
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