Down to the River
“Oh, Sisters, let’s go down; let’s go down; don’t you wanna go down. Oh, Sisters, let’s go down – down to the river to pray.”* Or celebrate. Or revel in the life of one of our own.
My community dropped its shields this week. We felt wounded, not from without, from within. The shields were dismantled between us. We let ourselves be fragile, and in that space, to be clear that we loved our sister. The sharing morphed from deeds, to conversations, to feelings, to acts of love, to gathering, to holding each other, to standing together as one with and for our sister.
Now we know who we are to each other.
* “Down to the River to Pray”
Photo by Kathi Fox
