The rain is falling today.
It’s indiscriminate. The rain doesn’t care who it falls on.
If you go out in the rain you will get wet.
It falls on the powerful and the meek.
It falls on the just and unjust
Yesterday the sun was shining
It didn’t care; the sun doesn’t care who it touches
If you went into the sun, you received it’s rays filled with vitamin D
It shone on those who were happy and those who mourned
It shone on those with COVID19 and those without alike.
Sometimes I feel caught up in my shoulds….
What should I be doing? How should I be feeling? Who should I be, now in the middle of this world crises.
God reminds me, God is my God, and the God of those who are angry, and the God of those who are terrified, or alone.
God is still my God when I feel those things. The sun still shines on me and the rain still makes me wet.
And if I’m just scraping to make ends meet: physically, monetarily, intellectually or emotionally. God is still my God then too.
You can’t be too anything for God: too good or too bad, too straight or too queer, too rich or too poor, too sad or too happy.
God promises, no matter what, God will be our God.
And I’m glad, in this time when I can’t touch many people–I can feel the drops of rain on my tongue and the warmth of the sun between my shoulders.
Remind me whoever I feel too much, or too little God that these are not your limits. Allow me to take comfort in the sun and the rain I pray. Amen.
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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.
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