Monday, April 6, 2020
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

― Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reflect on ways the beloved community manifests and protects agape love as its guiding principle with this resource from the General Commission on Religion and Race, written by Dr. Arthuree Wright.
What is your emotional response to this definition of the beloved community?

In what ways have you seen these traits being lived out at FUMC? 

What trait would you consider the most challenging?

How is God inviting you to respond?


Prayer
Thank you, God, for opening our eyes this Lenten season to the long and arduous task of resisting racism. As we move through this Holy Week, give us the courage and strength to hone our practices of Asking, Naming, Interrupting, Submitting, and Carrying so that we may work toward antiracism. Teach us to support and create systems that are fair and just for everyone. Mend our fractures and make us whole. Amen.
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We provide these daily Interruptions to you for each day of Lent, as we journey together in the Spiritual Work of Resisting Racism. Believing that God is active through a variety of voices and media, we trust the Holy Spirit to aid our reflection and transformation. If you’d like to share these reflections and experiences with others, please do so on our private Facebook group . If you’d like to reflect further with a pastor, please email us at [email protected] or [email protected] .
First United Methodist Church
1201 Lavaca St.
Austin, TX 78731