Our physical and spiritual liberation is bound up together. There is no liberation for one unless there is liberation for all, and even though we might view the Holy in different ways, we are free to worship as we see fit. In the quest to love one another, though, sometimes our biases and judgments can come into play, preventing us from getting proximate to those whom we are trying to show love and make genuine connection. Sometimes are emotions and preconceptions “misrule” over us, and the need to cross over Jordan into a new understanding of love, in the spirit of MLK and the civil rights movements, means going on an exodus, wandering into the desert of our own self understanding, and finding out what it means to love and live in this land flowing with milk and honey.

McKinley Sims