The National Council of Churches has marked today as the National Day of Prayer for Criminal Justice Reform. So, today our prayers should be especially focused on remembering the incarcerated, and on renewing our responsible action to transform injustice into justice. Please take a moment to follow the tag Criminal Injustice Kos to keep abreast of this particular need.
Welcome to Brothers and Sisters, the weekly meetup for prayer* and community at Daily Kos. We put an asterisk on pray* to acknowledge that not everyone uses conventional religious language, but may want to share joys and concerns, or simply take solace in a meditative atmosphere. Anyone who comes in the spirit of mutual respect, warmth and healing is welcome.
God moves
in all of human history
God moves
on the side of the oppressed
God moves in Jesus Christ
to liberate
to justify
to sanctify
God moves through prison walls
to comfort
to sustain
to free
God moves on all levels
simultaneously
God moves.
Benjamin Chavis
[The system] also breeds contempt for the oppressed. Accrual of contempt is its fundamental survival technique. This leads to the excesses and destroys any hope of peace eventually being worked out between the two antagonistic classes, the haves and the have-nots. Coexistence is impossible, contempt breeds resistance, and resistance breeds brutality, the whole growing in spirals that must either end in the uneconomic destruction of the oppressed or the termination of oppression.
George Jackson
Thus says God the LORD,
Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread out the earth and its offspring,
Who gives breath to the people on it
And spirit to those who walk in it,
"I am the LORD, I have called You in righteousness,
I will also hold You by the hand and watch over You,
And I will appoint You as a covenant to the people,
As a light to the nations,
To open blind eyes,
To bring out prisoners from the dungeon
And those who dwell in darkness from the prison."
-Isaiah 42:5-7