God of the long night,
Thank you for being a God not just of solidarity but of deep and raw emotion.
A God who did not endure violence in silence but who spoke and cried as your body was broken on the cross.
Help us to understand that our memory of you becomes more whole when we remember alongside the injustice with which you suffered in solidarity: the hunger, the abuse, the loneliness of the world.
Today let us grieve the path of the cross – illness, violence, alienation, the degradation of land, and all pain unspoken.
Let us weep and rest.
Reveal yourself to us, remind us of a of a God who knows the weight of oppression, and help us believe that truly you are with us. That your cause is our cause – no less than justice and liberation in life and death. Amen
*Black Liturgies by Cole Arthur Riley