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Day 29: His Eye Is on the Sparrow

For the LORD comforts his people and shows mercy to his afflicted. Comfort can be hard to come by amidst the struggle against racial injustice. How can we even let ourselves feel a moment of God’s comfort when so many struggle daily to survive, let alone live free and vibrant lives?

Day 28: An Intolerance for Waiting

In his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. writes passionately about the myth of time. “I guess it is easy for [the privileged] to say, ‘Wait,’” he writes. “But when you are forever fighting a denigrating sense of ‘nobodiness’ then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and [people] are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice . . .”

Day 27: Joy Is Justice. Justice Is Life.

Joy is justice. Justice is life. Pope Francis has declared 2016 a Holy Year of Mercy, and mercy, he says in his new book, is about “[going] outside and [looking] for people where they live, where they suffer, and where they hope.” That is what Jesus does in the Gospels: he goes forth and gives mercy.