Day 29 - First Steps: Love

I can’t write any more now. Please understand, my love will never change.

Your brother, Jimmy.

-James Baldwin, letter to Edgin Cezzar, 1989

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And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

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Gracious God, we give you thanks that

James Baldwin loved your beloved children,

and that he lovingly shared his life with us

in word, action, and song.

Stir our spirits toward your righteousness.

Move our feet along the road of justice.

Open our hearts to love

as you have loved us.

Amen.