The Psalm reading for the Second Sunday of Easter in this lectionary cycle is Psalm 16, a petition for God's protection. I doubt that I have preached from this passage on this particular Sunday because the more familiar passage is about the encounter of the risen Christ on the Emmaus Road, an immensely preachable narrative. But during this pandemic Psalm 16 speaks words of relevance in the first verse: "Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge." The photo below is from Penn School on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. Penn Center was a school started in 1862 to educate freed black slaves. The prayer of the school is especially resonant with current events: "O God, give me clean hands, clean words and clean thoughts. Help me to stand for the right against the easy wrong. Save me from habits that harm. Teach me to work as hard and play as fair in thy sight alone as if all the world saw. Forgive me when I am unkind and help me to forgive those who are unkind to me. Keep me ready to help others at some cost to myself. Send me chances to do a little good every day, and grow more like Christ. Amen."