Burnt Out

Welp
Everything tastes like smoke
as we gasp for air
and look at eerie skies

And I think–
this is it
We are now
breathing into

Our burnt out state

Some scholars said
no trauma
None,
not a bit
After(?!?) Covid

Really God?
Our whole landscape has been irrevocably changed

Mountains have become valleys
Valleys, Mountains

People died
Others moved away
Some found themselves

But no trauma,
Because I have found humans are really good at change

Not

And here we are
Pretending we are back
To whatever normal there was

Double the racism
Quadruple the Hate

Suspicion so bad we are gunning down
Hide and Seeking Children

….Fine, God says…fine
Not that God set the world on Fire

But when finances to stop wildfires are cut
And we our souls are burnt to a crisp
and the sky is orange…

Sometimes I say its helpful if God gives us
a
Neon
Orange
Sign

Are
You
Thirsty
for some Sabbath? Hope? Change?

What blue-skied lush world
of health and peace are you dreaming..

I’ll sit with you a minute…

I’ll sit with you…

I’ll sit with…

I’ll sit…

I…

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NYC Library Pic from of Library Lions and Pride flag in orange smoke from @HelenHSUPsD on Twitter


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Author: katyandtheword

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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