In thanksgiving for ancestors and kin, for mothers and sisters across generations, for those who help to birth and those who accompany the walk and those who tell the tales, I call the names:
Grace
Susan
Mildred
Lydia
Lucy
Jacqueline
Eleanor
Tamar
Diane
Cheni
Ruth
Rahab
Marilyn
Sondra
Sarah
Lisa
Rubi
Nancy
Naomi
Bathsheba
Imani
Elsie
Mary
Lois
on Matthew 1:1-16