Jesus: when I am hungry
Don’t choke me
When I knock on your doors
Don’t shoot me
When I seek Gender affirming care
Don’t legislate me
When I seek asylum
Don’t arrest me
When I’m an orphan
Don’t put me to work illegally
When I’m suspected by police
Don’t kill me
When I’m sick
Don’t tell me to do yoga
When I’m in mental crises
Don’t call the cops
When I’m lonely
Don’t hand me a pamphlet
When I do sex work
Don’t judge me
When I am frail
Don’t ignore me
When I am imprisoned
seek my freedom
When I hear the racism so loud, if you notice
Interrupt
When I am a rape victim
Listen and believe
Do not ask where was
When you reach my Kingdom
You met me, it is I
I am within all of your human siblings
You have but to look
You treat me, how you treat those you consider the least of these
How I long to hold them under my wing
And give them the care they need
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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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