How Do We Create A New World Amid Chaos?
Before creating the world, God hovered in darkness. With the election, the world feels dark again to many of us. It’s ok to acknowledge we’re already tired, knowing we’ll have to rise again. Like God, the spirit of revolution waits for us whenever we’re ready to build the next world.
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the deep surface, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” –Genesis 1:1.
These days, a future rooted in Black liberation feels nearly impossible. How do we build a new world when the present feels so dark?
Even God had to build a new world amid chaos.
There’s debate over whether God literally or metaphorically created the world in six days.
The point is that God did create the world, and it was new at the time. Through faith, it is possible to build a new world.
God set an intention for each day, acted on it, and ended each day having fulfilled that intention.
Each day brought God one step closer to completing the world's creation.
God created the world in six days, with the seventh day dedicated to rest.
As we grieve the election result and the anti-Black regime that will follow, we’re allowed to rest as we gear up to build the next world.
Like God, we must remember that the spirit of our revolution hovers on the horizon. Now is the time to lean into faith, community, ancestral wisdom, rest, and the many tools God has given us.
A new world is possible.
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