Bewildered

November 15, 2016

This morning I set up a monthly donation to Black Lives Matter.  This is what I wrote in the comment box. "I felt supportive of the Black Lives Matter movement before last Tuesday.  Now I am bewildered and not sure what to do.  I offer this little financial support that I feel able to offer.  My life experience is that I am at this time a white grandmother, a product of white, middle class Christian America, born in 1950.  I desire a new middle class that includes all people."

What is happening? And how do I respond?  Don't know.

The Serenity Prayer is often quoted.  I copied it from Wikipedia.  Wikipedia said it was authored by Reinhold Niebuhr.  

  

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

Courage to change the things I can.

A longer version is:

God, give me grace to accept with serenity

the things that cannot be changed,

Courage to change the things

which should be changed,

and the Wisdom to distinguish

the one from the other.

Living one day at a time,

Enjoying one moment at a time,

Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,

Taking, as Jesus did,

This sinful world as it is,

Not as I would have it,

Trusting that You will make all things right,

If I surrender to Your will,

So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,

And supremely happy with You forever in the next.

Amen

I woke up grieving this morning.  Dressed in black.