Week 2 Rest is Resistance

Week 2 “What does exhaustion look like for me?” p. 56
Hosea 5:15-6:6
Psalm 3:1-6 
Broken Humanity: Scarcity & Hate
(Notes: I am using these Biblical passages as “Dreamscapes” of letting go and saying ok, we do not have to do it all, God will take care of things, God will bind up the broken hearted, God will bring peace, God will defeat the enemies, God will build the communities, I can go to bed at night without completing the to do lists, while naming that exhaustion is easy to picture and rest is not)

Call to Worship
(Breathe in) I am here
(Breathe Out) I will be present

Prayer of the Day
Holy Spirit,
Be with us as we unentangle
the sources of our exhaustion
and try to find life giving practices
to do more than sustain–so that we might
thrive and be in community with one another
In Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.

Call to Confession: Jesus says my yoke is light, come to me all those who are heavy burdened, and lay your yokes at the feet of Jesus today through Confession.

Confession: God, we confess that we are so weary, that we do not know what it is like to be fully rested. We see children pass us by and say “I wish I had that energy.” However we confess, that we are also envious of their joy and freedom from responsibilities. Help us to find true soul-sustaining, life giving rest, the peace beyond understanding the Jesus promises, so that we can find that new way of being we pray. Amen.

Assurance of Pardon: Jesus Christ promises to make all things new, hold fast to that promise and know the Good News: In Jesus Christ we renewed and forgiven.

Suggested Rest Practices for Worship
Body Prayer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNl1O-5sfSI
P. 34 Body Scan breathing exercise
Sing Taize

Burnt Out, A Prayer

Notes

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@OhMiaGod I wish there was a word for “I love you, my spectacular beautiful friend. Unfortunately, I’m so exhausted I don’t have the energy to communicate. But I want to indicate that athough we’ve not spoken in some time, my love for you is undying and I am your eternal supporter.”

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Pastor Katy has enjoyed ministry at New Covenant since 2010, where the church has solidified its community focus. She now works at Capital CFO plus as the Non Profit Director. All opinions expressed on this blog are her own and do not reflect those of Capital CFO plus. 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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