What keeps you from recognizing Jesus? Is it your grief? Your racism? Your anger?

What keeps you from seeing?

Church family, come alongside one another. Sit and eat and talk, and in that vulnerable hospitality, you will see the Lord.

Take the risk of gathering with neighbors and strangers, friends and enemies. Break bread together and you will know the Lord.

And in the seeing and knowing you will be made whole. Our communities will know peace.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,

the fellowship of the Holy Spirit,

and the love of God be with you and all those you love and all those you do not love.

Rev. Elizabeth Kanerva, Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy, St. Louis, MO