Someday
I hope
We will raise prayers
No longer wet
With the sacrificial blood
Of children killed by guns
And violence
And hunger
And neglect
And hate.
Some day
We will care
More for health
Than test scores
More for housing
Than lawns
More for queer families
Than breaking hearts
More for disabled people
Than helping porn and “self-advocacy”
More for people of color
Than trumped up blame, hushed up histories, and subjugation.
Some day God,
The kin(g)dom
Will sneak up
On us
Like a cool breeze
On a hot day.
Like dew
On the lawn
Like a rainbow
Coming into focus
And we will all be Beloved neighbors there!
I’m standing in you
And your promise Jesus.
Because at the end
Of the day
Isn’t that what prayer is?
So I’m standing here
Breathing another one
Another prayer
For your collection
Put it on your heart please.
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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Beautiful. Thank you. “Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer…”