Walk the Walk: Day Five - Culpeper to Remington, Virginia

August 24 2020
August 24 2020

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Chestnut Hill United Church community,

One more reason to love Zoom Church - I could join in today from Route 29 in Elkwood, Virginia. I got there just in time for prayers (sorry I missed your sermon, Kipp!).

Despite the heat and humidity (the humidity was 95% when we started off this morning), one thing that keeps me going is a collaborative playlist that some of us are creating together. If you listen to music on Spotify and have a song that helps you "walk the walk" and sustains you when your spirits (or feet) fail, feel free to add it to our growing playlist on Spotify - "Siyahamba: Walking the Walk" - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2iyjZ41JKC0QXtxJ5ZZEzp?si=nztIA33ITwyvalBaZmn3pw. And feel free to listen to this playlist yourself. If you don’t do Spotify, send me the name of your song and I’ll put it on our list!

This music, the companions who walk along this road from all over the country, this church community, and a great cloud of witnesses are helping me to learn and sing new songs. That, and a dose of Howard Thurman, a Black theologian, pastor, and Civil Rights leader, who wrote:

"I will sing a new song
The old song of my spirit has wearied itself out.
It has long ago been learned by my heart;
It repeats itself over and over,
bringing no added joy to my days or lift to my spirit.
I will sing a new song.
I must learn the new song for the new needs.
I must fashion new words born of all the new growth
of my life - of my mind - of my spirit.
I must prepare for new melodies that have never been mine before,
that all that is within me may lift my voice unto God.
Therefore, I shall rejoice with each new day
and delight my spirit in each fresh unfolding.
I will sing, this day, a new song unto the Lord.”

Sing on!

Linda

Walkthewalk

*I am participating in a nine-day, 140 mile walk from Charlottesville, Virginia to Washington, DC as part of the national “Walk the Walk” pilgrimage of white faith leaders to RECKON with the anti-Blackness that permeates our past and present as a nation and as faith institutions, RESOLVE to advance racial justice in our faith traditions and nation, and REFRAME the faith narrative in this nation. This is co-organized by Faith in Action, the national network of POWER Interfaith, of which our congregation is a part. More here at https://walkthewalk2020.us/


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