First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ
Justice...
An Affirmation of a Just Peace Community
We will be together in these places.
We will watch out for each other.
We will listen to whatever needs to be said.
We will wait for the slowest.
We will sooner or later catch up with the fastest.
We will dry the tears of those who are weeping
and know that they will dry ours when the time comes.
We will let ourselves begin to feel at least a little of the pain
of those we have considered our enemies.
We will let ourselves feel the pain of being thought of as someone else's
enemy;
not the pain of hurt feelings or of being misunderstood,
but the pain of acknowledging all those strands of history
that have put so many barriers between us.
We will not forget life.
We will not forget to be grateful.
We will do our best to stir in each other
the courage to act with love and justice in our particular lives.
We will nurture hope.
--Mary Farrell Bednarowski, as adapted by First
Congregational
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