SWIC prayer of the week 2.6.06

Meghan is continuing her table topic on social justice with a powerful quote from Martin Luther King, Jr, whose widow Coretta Scott King, just passed away.


A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

God of Hope,
Open our hearts to compassion and love for all your people.
Give us courage and perseverance to be a source of change in the world.
May we always recognize the dignity of each human person and strive to be a sign of your presence in the world.

Amen