Unshakable Hope

Like for many of you, the election results and the disturbing implications of yet another Trump presidency have felt painful and overwhelming. When people ask me what I think this means for Jubilee and the immigrants we serve, I tell them plainly, “It’ll be bad, even more cruel than the first time.” I want to reject the flimsy half-truth that “it will all be ok.” Instead, I want to acknowledge that the next four years will be hard and excruciating. And as a Christian, I want to believe that the Crucified and Risen Christ is big enough to hold all of us, together with our immigrant neighbors and our divided nation.

What does this moment and our future require of us? To humbly align ourselves with people who have far less power than we do because we believe that our well-being, our future, is intertwined with those on the margins. To stand up. With our bodies and with our time and resources. To stand in solidarity with our immigrant communities and all who are marginalized. To love those who feel like enemies. To keep going. Together. 

At Jubilee, we press forward in the work of justice. To envision and strive for a reconciled and restored community, one we believe to be God's intent for all of humanity. In the words of one of my favorite female preachers, Fleming Rutledge, we are invited to “live every day of our lives in solidarity with those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, but to live in the unshakable hope of those who expect the dawn.”*

*Fleming Rutledge (2018), The Once & Future Coming of Jesus Christ, p. 255.

By Amy Lee

Executive Director & Immigration Attorney