{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Prayers for the Permanent Collection","title":"Abolitionists | Let My People Go!","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":321,"description":"Abolitionists \nLet My People Go!\n“I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings and I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey…” (Exodus 3:7-8)\n“The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness.” (Exodus 7:16)\nGod, Liberator of the oppressed, \nI hear your voiceroaring from the burning bush,rushing into my soul with fury,crying out for the voiceless,“Let my people go!” \nYou are crying for the unborn,the creature you shaped, kicking in mom’s belly wanting to be born.But her arrival is an inconvenience, so we use murder as a convenience.I hear you crying with jealousy, “Let my people go!”\nYou are crying for the mom,who wants her unborn to be born,but enjoys no support  of those who hasten to accuse her,but move nothing to lift her sorrowand deny her the dignity of telling her story.I hear you crying for her, “That’s my daughter,Let her go!”\nYou are crying for the sisters of Tamar,who were treated like objects,violated and discardedby brothers who felt entitled to pleasure  and abused their power to obtain it. I hear you sobbing with Tamar and her sisterstears of sorrow, sobs of anguish, tears of shame, sobs of rage, tears of denial, sobs of despair, tears and sobs, tears and sobs, ashes and torn robe, bitter tears, bitter pain, heavy tears and rhythmic sobs, the sound of grief and the cadence of desolation. I hear you sobbing in anguish“Let Tamar and her sisters go!”\nYou are crying with George Floyd,your hands extended on the cross,exhausted from searching for air,looking at the guards who robbed your breath.You cry with him in unison“I can’t breathe.”And your Spirit within me cries,“Let my people go!”\nYou are sobbing with the parents,who are losing children to gun violence in the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ecB9oF1Zt1WpqVBmlsCUKi05JtYwosraqr-jnsSGTuM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iZTlh/OGZmYmIzNjAwN2Iz/OGJhMTEzYTlhYjg1/NWIwZS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}