Loving God, you sent your son, Jesus Christ, to be the pioneer of our freedom. Born this day in 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, the late Toni Morrison said, “The function of freedom is to free someone else” and celebrated the freeing power of storytelling. As an editor, she championed writers of African descent before becoming a Pulitzer Prize winner for her own first novel, “Beloved,” about slavery’s brutal effects on its victims and their descendants. By your grace, as individuals and a nation, may we take from our Lord’s story and Toni’s the understanding that trauma comes not from the memory but from choosing not to remember. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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