Welcome to a Lent daybook for these 40+ days of prayerful repentance.
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Look: Confederate Truce Flag, Sonya Clark - Source & Monumental Cloth: The Flag We Should Know, Sonya Clark Source
Read about the unassuming white dishtowel used at the end of the Civil War: "The historic object is utterly unassuming, a fringed white linen dishtowel yellowed with age, with three skinny red stripes along its border. And despite the important role it played in ending the bloodiest conflict in our nation’s history, hardly anyone knows it exists.
In comparison, the Confederate battle flag has been slapped on countless commercial goods—one of Clark’s pieces at the Fabric Workshop, Propaganda, offers a written list of 200 items decorated with the Stars and Bars that are available for purchase, including bikinis, bumper stickers, and yoga mats.
That the truce flag has been forgotten while the battle flag has been memorialized—defended as a symbol of Southern heritage, rather than denounced as one of a violent conflict fought in defense of slavery—seemed to Clark an historical imbalance that she could help correct."
Listen*: Stand Up (from Harriet, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Cynthia Erivo - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read**: Psalm 137, 144; Exodus 10:21-11:8; 2 Corinthians 4:13-18; Mark 10:46-52
Pray & Do:
Each week during Lent, we will devote Saturdays to connecting with An American Lent from The Repentance Project. It's God's kindness that leads us to repentance, and in His kindness and provision for reconciliation, He invites us to make confession and ask for forgiveness on behalf of not only ourselves but our forefathers and mothers. We carry a heavy load of guilt and grief in our nation as a result of centuries of grievous sin and unrelenting injustice against African Americans.
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