 This is also about the time you would be confirmed as a living member of the body of Jesus Christ. The Southern writer Lillian Smith wrote a century after slavery's end, "...now at one's feet there are chasms that had been invisible until this moment." Describing an experience shared in silence by generations of white Christians, she observed how, "...one knows and never remembers how it was learned, but there will always be chasms, and now across the chasms will always be those one loves."