From “The Night is Long but Light Comes in the Morning: Meditations for Racial Healing” by Catherine Meeks
Not long ago I was the guest lecturer for a class of seminary students, and I heard myself say, “If you do not do your inner work with sincerity and intention, you will never do anything in the outer world that is worth speaking about.” Later I thought more deeply about what I’d said. I’ve spent the past five decades teaching, thinking, writing, and interrogating myself about the work of racial healing and what I believe it will take to find a sustainable remedy to heal the damage that has been done by racism across the planet. While there are many paths that one can choose, a path to inner work is a good starting place. Everyone has an individual path in terms of the inner work needed, and I’ve found that it takes a lifetime to do that work.