Processing with God: Narrative Lectionary, Liturgy, Prayers
God of the Cross
Dear Jesus You are the God of the Cross
Journeying with Us Suffering Amongst Us
You do not Proscribe Suffering But Walk, Thirsty in the desert with us
Sweet Jesus You do not make demands But call us, and listen, when we spill our whole selves to you by the well
Compassionate Friend You wait for us on the Cross And tell us, it is not too late to apologize, even then, and You will be there on the other side
How beautiful is the whole testimony of the Cross: We are not alone, We do not have to suffer, We can be our full self And we do not have to double down Because its never, ever to late to apologize
Jesus is waiting for us Our theology is not ultimately about debates But about love, and to see the humanity of each other And Jesus On the Cross
How beautiful is the Body of Christ, Thank you for being the God of the Cross 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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