Everything wasn’t magically healed in that moment, but I believe that the Spirit was deeply at work in us as we confessed our powerlessness to God. A handful of people approached me with a renewed vision to connect prayer with their activism. They saw that prayer was not a way to ignore the problem but rather a means of engaging the issues from a different place—a deeper place. Unless people are instructed to have lives with God in prayer, any hope to see deep racial reconciliation literally won’t have a prayer.
