God,
Today we got to talk about how
We write God’s on our hearts
with the liturgy of the prayers we read
Mumuring, muttering, mumbling
Practicing, practicing, practicing
Faith….
Turning the story over and over in our brains
until it is written on our hearts.
We talked about the mystical change,
the one that takes place when we start off
talking about who we are
and how we are
angry
and sad
and joyful
and lamentful
and despondent
and we practice
our identity
and our identity with one another
and our identity in you.
God, I’m practicing,
With angsty prayers, and half finished stories,
and moments of belatedness
Help me practice
so that I, too, my move towards you,
As you write your love upon my heart.
Practice with me? Amen
Feel free to use/adapt/share with credit to Pastor Katy Stenta
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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.
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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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