God,
You and I
know that I am uncomfortable
pledging allegiance to a flag–
because that flag’s justice
is not your justice.
Justice that flows like waters
is not promised in the flag
Supreme Justice–where mainly white men
reign like kings of the day;
welp God, I remember
all your warnings about kings,
and that you sent
ahem,
let’s say a different kind of judges
heroes who rebalanced the books
against the powers that be–
God we are the one
who are to empower the judges
against the Supreme Justices
Restoring Personhood, Privacy, Sexuality, Climate, Native Rights
Obliterating our hunger for Death Cults.
God, I do not want liberty and justice for all
because those human ideals cannot come close to
justice flowing down like water,
and righteousness like an everflowing stream
refresh our thirst for that which is good,
remind us to listen to those in the margins,
who still remember what justice tastes like.
Because surely it tastes like communion,
and the Kin(g)dom
and Love;
If only we can remember,
Whet our appetite for justice, I 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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