ENOUGH!!!!!!
Yesterday, a video seen in circulation across media outlets captured the murder of George Floyd, by a white Minneapolis police officer. This video showed the moments where this police officer remained with his knee on George Floyd’s neck, as he lay pinned face down to the ground in handcuffs. George Floyd, who is an African-American man, repeatedly cried out “I can’t breathe”, and pleaded for his mother to help him. He remained pinned face down to the ground in handcuffs with the police officer’s knee to his neck. Tears flow and hearts break, as the video captures him now appearing motionless, still pinned face down to the ground in handcuffs.
Anger! Outrage! Sadness! Grief! Disappointment! Lament! TIRED…are just some of the emotions that arise, as a result of the murder of George Floyd, by a white police officer, seen in vast circulation across media outlets. A great racial divide is once again brought to surface in America. When will this breach stop? When will this trauma end? When will racial reconciliation begin? COVID-19 isn’t the most dangerous virus that currently plagues America. The evil delusion of racial injustice that flows from racial hatred is a virus of the soul that has plagued America for generations. It is a generational virus that requires a healing that only God can bring and requires a work towards reconciliation that BOTH sides of the injustice must take.
It is with the strength of God that a FIGHT in me still rises that will NOT give up. “Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow”. ( Isaiah 1:17 NIV). This CANNOT be a one-sided fight, a one-sided work, or a one-sided voice! This fight, work, voice has GOT to cross racial lines. It’s a NEED and a MUST!!
This morning, a good friend of mine, who is in the trenches of trauma healing and reconciliation, shared a great work with me. So…in her sharing, I would like to invite my white sisters and brothers to join brown sisters and brothers in the fight, the work, the voice against racial injustice and the fight, the work, the voice towards racial reconciliation. Quest movement (www.questmovement.com) and The Trauma Healing Institute (www.thi.americanbible.org) have partnered together to create, train, and facilitate GENERATIONAL TRAUMA HEALING: THE BLACK AND WHITE EXPERIENCE.
These small, intimate, healing groups provide a transparent space to look at your own biases, have the HARD but NEEDED conversations that inspect the trauma, shame, guilt, and wounds that racism and injustice have left on BOTH SIDES. This is a great triage and first aid step to to the soul healing and racial reconciliation that is needed. THIS IS THE TIME! This CANNOT be a one-sided fight, a one-sided work, or a one-sided voice! This fight, work, and voice has GOT to cross racial lines. It’s a NEED and a MUST!!
For more information about these generational trauma healing groups, please email: info@renovatehers.com
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This fight, this work, this voice against racial injustice and this fight, this work, this voice towards racial reconciliation CANNOT be one-sided!!!