While leading a congregational service this weekend, someone read these words:
After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands. (Revelation 7:9)
Alligator Alcatraz is no more.
Bombs no longer fall on Gaza hospitals.
The colonized are free.
ICE is vanquished.
The gulags are closed forever.
The impoverished stand liberated.
All people — every nation, tribe, and language — serve as beloved witnesses.
And if all of these things are no longer — in this vision, or another vision you hold dear — why not work for them now?
— Renee Roederer
Smuggling Grace 