Jesus
You promised to show up
Whenever we feed one another
In your name…
You promise that we can celebrate
Communion
With one another and you
Whenever we want/need to
How is this possible?
Jesus let me hang onto your promises,
And remind me,
Even if I let go—your promises remain
They are better than time or borders
Or any other human invention
God, I’m going to stand on your promises,
Or hide in them
Or even if I lose them—
I’m going to wait for them to find me again
Like Ruth and Naomi,
Like Joseph in Egypt,
Like Paul
Your promises don’t find us because we are perfect
Or deserving
They find us simple because we are loved.
May we feel beloved today.
Amen.
Feel free 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.
"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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