Processing with God: Narrative Lectionary, Liturgy, Prayers
Curious Easter
God, Sometimes I feel like Christ is Risen Is unbelievable Ungraspable Scary
And then I remember That is the point We humans find so many things so hard to hang onto
things like grace promises and love
Easter Incarnate is not an easy thing it takes practice It’s different than hope
Deeper perhaps more desperate
It’s community solidarity It’s re-membering Christ Somehow
God who walks with us Thank you For giving us Easter the curious story
and reminding us It’s not supposed to Make any sense
Every Year Amen
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Abstracted sun streaked background, sunrising behind the tomb, with a couple of clouds in front of it. Made with Canva. Feel free to use with Credit to Pastor Katy Stenta
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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