Because God loves the world, this impossible world
Humans visit Hell all too frequently
Good Friday is an emptiness so loud it echoes
The taste of hopelessness dry upon the the tongue
Its is the silence of all the voices that are not allowed to speak
My God, My God why have you abandoned Me?
Hell existing wherever and whenever love is impossible
Humans visit Hell all too frequently
When terrorists bomb, when children die, when hate masquerades as institutions or gospel or love
When our bodies betray us, when we are at the absolute end of everything we have to give, when sanctuary eludes us
It is the moment when we become stuck in the mire, knowing that even if someone wanted to help….they couldn’t
Emptiness Echoes
Somehow, Christ descended into Hell
The third day he rose again from the dead, conquering even death, even emptiness, even Hell
Making Love exist in impossible places
For Jesus came not to condemn the world, but to save it
Emptying himself
Because God loves the world, this impossible world
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Pastor Katy has enjoyed ministry at New Covenant since 2010, where the church has solidified its community focus. Prior to that she studied both Theology and Christian Formation at Princeton Theological Seminary. She also served as an Assistant Chaplain at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital and as the Christian Educational Coordinator at Bethany Presbyterian at Bloomfield, NJ.
She is an writer and is published in Enfleshed, Sermonsuite, Presbyterian's today and Outlook. She writes prayers, liturgy, poems and public theology and is pursuing her doctorate in ministry in Creative Write and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
She enjoys working within and connecting to the community, is known to laugh a lot during service, and tells as many stories as possible. Pastor Katy loves reading Science Fiction and Fantasy, theater, arts and crafts, music, playing with children and sunshine, and continues to try to be as (w)holistically Christian as possible.
"Publisher after publisher turned down A Wrinkle in Time," L'Engle wrote, "because it deals overtly with the problem of evil, and it was too difficult for children, and was it a children's or an adult's book, anyhow?" The next year it won the prestigious John Newbery Medal.
Tolkien states in the foreword to The Lord of the Rings that he disliked allegories and that the story was not one.[66] Instead he preferred what he termed "applicability", the freedom of the reader to interpret the work in the light of his or her own life and times.
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