1. Psalm 137 By the Rivers or Babylon…

4. Communal remembering…

5. Impassioned Protest…

6. Honest praying…

7. … We must pray who we actually are, not who we think we should be…The way of prayer is not to cover our unlovely emotions so that they will appear respectable, but to expose them so that they can be enlisted in the work of the kingdom’ (Eugene Peterson “Answering God” p100)

8. Honest prayer is a stepping stone

9. ‘Praying our hate can be the first step into the presence of God, where we learn that he has ways of dealing with what we bring him that are both other and better than what we had in mind. But until we are in prayer we are not teachable.’ (Eugene Peterson, Answering God p100)

10. A stepping stone to forgiveness 1) We hurt 2) We hate 3) We heal ourselves 4) We come together (Lewis Smedes)

11. A Stepping stone to working for justice

13. Hate may provide the spark for ignition, but love must be the fuel of our response