Gracious God, we offer thanks for the witness of Harriett Beecher Stowe, whose fiction inspired thousands with compassion for the shame and sufferings of enslaved peoples, and who enriched her writings with the cadences of The Book of Common Prayer. Help us, like her, to strive for thy justice, that our eyes may see the glory of thy Son, Jesus Christ, when he comes to reign with thee and the Holy Spirit in reconciliation and peace, one God, now and always. Amen.
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
—Harriet Beecher Stowe, died this day in 1896 pic.twitter.com/bZaZj26iGw— PEN Center USA (@penusa) July 1, 2017