[Shared] Dear god … via Killing the Buddha

Yeah, I’m on hiatus for Lent, but this one was so powerful that I decided to break in and share it anyway. Sue me.

via Dear god, < Killing the Buddha.

Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, an impassioned UCC minister, potently shares his frustrations with God. The entire letter is long, but very worth reading. The bit that hit me most deeply is quoted below:

Dear god,

I have not written you in some time. I have been busy cleaning up your shit down here. I believe the last time I wrote you it was from New Orleans. Now, I write from a little further south—Haiti.

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I know you like numbers because you dedicated an entire book to them in what is purported to be your word. So let me give you a few:

1.5 million homeless
30,000 died in Leogane
250,000 total dead
6,500 tent cities

Evidently you shared your version of the earthquake’s cause with your envoy, Pat Robertson. (By the way, a deal with the Devil for my freedom is a deal I am willing to make.) If the recent tone of my sermons and this letter have not made it clear, let me say in no uncertain terms—I am angry with you, god. If you did this, you did very, very wrong.

However, I will not give you the pleasure or satisfaction of me quitting. Haiti is not a test of my faith, or the faith of the people of Haiti, for that matter. Our faith is shaken but steady. We are rebuilding in the shit and filth, but you are hiding. Haiti is not a test of our faith but a test of your grace. Show yourself.

Sincerely,

Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, Senior Minister
Lemuel Haynes Congregational Church
South Jamiaca Queens, NY

via Dear god, < Killing the Buddha.

It’s easy for me to say this from my comfy chair here in Louisville, but in a very real way I think God just did show Herself – through Rev. Sekou’s letter.