God
I wonder if everything
In heaven will be well loved
Like a comfortable sweater
And a couch that hugs your butt just the wife way.
Holy Spirit you know how I am longing for comfort.
For the things of childhood that were so soothing:
Playing in the grass, coloring so hard you could smell the crayons, saying hi ready to make friends with the world.
Sometimes when people long for the good old days. I think they are wishing for their inner child
—even if they don’t remember who that was.
Ans yet Jesus, you know
And say that a child shall lead us.
God you know that nothing is gently used in my house—my kids are busting with energy and ready to fully embrace everything life has to offer.
Couches are to jump on.
Juice boxes spilling out with sweet goodness.
Mud and dirt brimming with life.
God, in this time of turmoil, help me to taste heaven.
Because surely this chaos is what Pentecost was like!
Come Holy Spirit! Fill us with some messy hope today 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.
"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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