Prayer and the Ancestors
I w as thrilled to be a part of the Descendants’ and Black Seminarians’ weekend at Virginia Theological Seminary. I decided to participate in all the happenings. On Saturday morning, April 22, 2023, I arrived at the chapel a little late. As I entered the chapel, the minister was reading a passage from the prophet Zechariah. I thought of how beautiful that moment in the chapel was and how beautifully the weekend was going. I felt deeply connected to God and to my ancestors, John Holman Peters and his father John Henry Peters , who both worked on the property of Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS). I asked myself, “Who prayed this moment into existence? Who prayed the beauty of these blessings on my life?” THE BLESSINGS of experiencing God in a deeply passionate way. The blessings of spending this weekend at VTS in honor of my grandfather and great-grandfather. I imagined my ancestors walking the grounds of ...