A Prayer

                  Shooting at Historic 
                  African-American Church

We lost our way

and this labyrinth,

layers of privilege

tiers of believing

that it isn't my

problem, it's the other--

the red-neck, the 

Conservative politician,

the fundamental snake-

handler, the other

We forgot to look 

in the mirror, to check

our language, to look

at our neighborhood,

to ask who sits at our table

For awhile we'll mourn the

nine senseless deaths of 

 people at a Bible study
 people talking to God

people listening for God's whisper

What happens now?