Loving God
We confess that sometimes we aren’t sure how to relax, that sometimes it feels like a burden, or this thing we have to figure out.
Or a reward that I can only receive after we have completed after we have done every single thing on the list.
I also confess that when we feel crummy, and are given crumbs of Sabbath—that doesn’t help.
That too often Sabbath looks like this piecemeal, cobbled together, misshapenned monstrosity that happened throughout the day, or week, and so we aren’t sure if its good enough or counts, as if someone is grading the Sabbath—
when I know, deep, in my bones,
that the abundance of Sabbath your promise is supposed to be a promise, not threat
and that you would never grade my rest-keeping
and that the point is to know my belovedness, and to relish myself, not to take a million bubble-baths or try to fix myself
You know, God, how I don’t give space for others to be free either–because I have all of this baggage, and its just, not good!
I confess I need all the help this Sabbath thing!
Forgive me God, For thinking that this Sabbath thing is all up to me.
Help us to find Sabbath
in better systems
in safer communities
and in ourselves we 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.
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