Day 15: Serving in the Chaos of Pain
How are you being led to turn your pain and despair into hope? Where are you being called to serve in the midst of pain in your own community?
Amanda Montez Cobian is the director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Jesuit High School in Portland, OR. She recently finished her graduate degree at the University of San Francisco in international and multicultural education. Her research centers alumni of Nativity schools and how they transition to predominantly white high schools. As a bi-racial educator, she aims to create the classroom environment she wished she could have had as a student and works to create systems of racial equity at work, in research, and as a co-author of Jesuit West's Community Organizing for Racial Equity (CORE).
How are you being led to turn your pain and despair into hope? Where are you being called to serve in the midst of pain in your own community?
We are not being asked to make big, grandiose fasts. We are being asked to recognize and honor the humanness in each other. And in response, we radically love one another so that the margins dissipate.
May we be the ancestors grounded in trust, truth, and justice. May we never lose faith in something that we have yet to see.
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