TW: Theme of Racism and Racial Trauma | This episode comes from a place of heaviness and grief over the racist brutality against and killing of Black people. It is a prayer that comes from a broken heart, a place of mourning over the senseless and seemingly endless violence and genocide(!) committed through systemic racism. I did not plan to do this episode; but after deep prayer, meditation and contemplation, this podcast episode was birthed. See, Black people, we are in a struggle for our lives right now. We have been for a very long time, since the first of our enslaved African ancestors were kidnapped, stripped of their humanity, raped, tortured and brought to America, the land of (white) freedom, against their will. And we find that we must take up this fight for our survival anew in this present generation as the system designed to oppress us and profit from our silent compliance ramps up its efforts to terrorize and control us. So this is more than a prayer. It is a Declaration of our survival; an affirmation of our worth and worthiness in the eyes of God; and a celebration of the coming and final triumph of Love over hate.