"That We Might Be One..."

            In the corners of my memory, I can still see the signs that said “white only” and “colored”.  I can still hear the adults talking in whispers about the “sit-in” by black students at the  Woolworths in Greensboro.  As I watched the movie “Remember the Titans” many years ago, I remembered again my high school senior year when our high school became the first predominately white high school in the south to have a black football coach. Americans recently observed  the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and remember his dream of a day when “all men are created equal” would be not only   words of the Declaration of Independence, but a way of life.     My hope and prayer is that we as the body of the Christ, the Church, might work to that end because of the words of another King, the King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Christ Jesus who prayed “that we might be one, even as I and the Father are one.”     If we that follow that King do not strive to love others whatever may be the color of their skin, then how can we  love a God that we cannot see?

PRAYER

 O God, whose Spirit made people of different places and backgrounds one in Christ at Pentecost, let the power of your love overcome the barriers between us that we might be neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, black and white.  Make us one in Christ Jesus.  Amen.