Jesus,
Sometimes I shuffle around the house
hungry for company.
So I turn on the TV
or talk to myself.
Some days, I’m stumbling in the depths of despair
so I take my 2,000 IUs of Vitamin D (I don’t even know what that means)
and turn on all the lights, and sit in the windows
to soak up the pieces of joy we like to call sunshine
And sometimes,
I can’t breathe,
And the world collapses in,
in such a way that my inhaler can’t help
because the enormity of a world coming to the end
is just too much to bear.
And so, when you promised–
When you promise that you will be my bread
and I will never thirst
These are the kinds of hungers
These are the kinds of thirst you are talking about
The deep pangs and aches of being human.
The empty spots.
That there are places, that need to be filled.
And healed.
“This is my body, broken for you”
And that sometimes we skip over those places.
Ignoring them until they scream into every corner of our being.
Ignoring them, until they demand to be healed, hungry to be healthy again.
Because, in the end, you know.
We humans are hungry.
To be noticed, to be fed, to be warm, to be healed, to be loved.
Sometimes I’m hungry God.
Sometimes, I’m so hungry that it hurts.
“This is my body, broken for you”
Feed us.
And help us also, to feed one another.
Isn’t that why you sat with us, your disciples at the table?
“This is my body, broken for you”
Teach us to feed, and be fed.
Restore us to the ministry of communion 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. She now works at Capital CFO plus as the Non Profit Director. All opinions expressed on this blog are her own and do not reflect those of Capital CFO plus. 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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