It’s the end of an era
God, you know it and I know it.
Doors are slamming shut;
some of us have had our fingers pinched in them,
some of us have breathed sighs of relief at the ensuing silence afterwards.
It’s the end of an era–
We have not entered post-pandemic, post-capitalism, or post-racism
sadly
but we are post-something.
It’s the end of the world as we knew it,
Apocalypses continue to unfold, and Some of us are wringing our hands,
while other of us breathe in the fresh air
while others of us get to work (finally).
Jesus is this how it felt in the world of Acts?
With the politics all whirly, and no one knowing who they belonged to anymore?
And the things being torn down seemingly at random?
Is this why people fought over whether they belonged to Paul or Apollos
or Trump or Biden?
How was the church built in that era of chaos?
How did the the Lydias and Tabithas do it?
As people ask why things are different,
I laugh
Because you know God, that mostly
things are the same,
People have just finally noticed.
God walk with us as we enter this new era–
you’ve been with us so far.
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.
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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