A weekly devotional. This is part 4 of Jonathan and Charley’s reflection to Bryan Walsh’s article America Is Losing Its Religion. This week, to close things out, Charley and Jonathan discuss the importance of spirituality.

Here is the prayer that Charley read:

I AM NOT AFRAID OF DEATH, by Julia Esquivel

I am no longer afraid of death
I know well
Its dark and cold corridors
Leading to life.
I am afraid rather of that life
Which does not come out of death,
Which cramps our hands
And slows our march.
I am afraid of my fear
And even more of the fear of others,
Who do not know where they are going,
Who continue clinging
To what they think is life
Which we know to be death!
I live each day to kill death;
I die each day to give birth to life,
And in this death of death,
I die a thousand times
And am reborn another thousand
Through that love
From my People
Which nourishes hope!