Rest is Resistance Week 4

A brain with laundry, baby, a man helping, groceries, dinner, baby at the doctors, sewing an elephant and eyes opened wide clearly overwhelmed image from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/parenting/mental-load.html

Week 4 “Who was I before the terror of the toxic systems? p. 56
Psalm 127:1-2 In vain you get up early and stay up late, sweating to make a living, because God loves us and provides for us even while we sleep. (Inclusive Bible)
Isaiah 40:31
Mark 4:36-41
(W)holistic Self

Call to Worship
(Breathe in) God created me
(Breathe out) I can create

Prayer of the Day
God
help us
to find spaces
for rest
dreaming
help us to affirm
that we can
create
without making things
teach us
to allow
…………..(Silence)…
space.
Amen.

Call to Confession: Come let us dream together with God.

Prayer of Confession: God we confess that we have trouble relaxing. We feel the waves, the pressure, the turbulent urge to make to do lists as an necessary urgency. We confess that it all feels the same–that life feels like a giant job. True rest and sanctuary seem to be impossible. Where is the pillow? We confess that we do not believe that you accomplish things while we sleep. Full truth, we do not trust you enough for that God. Forgive us, and teach us how to find that Sabbath, rest and sanctuary we pray. (Silent confession) Amen.

Assurance of Pardon: Hear the Good News: God dreamt us into being, and God loves us into wholeness. Know the good news: In Jesus Christ we are forgiven.

Suggested Rest Practices
Rest Poem p. 101 (read to congregation)
Have everyone pick a “More” phrase from page 124 to silently contemplate, write, doodle, walk around with
Have everyone read kids stories to one another/Read a kids story to the congregation Intentionally, Show the pictures, do the voices
Have everyone write down their favorite song/album, make a commitment to listen to it that week

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Notes

Shared by Moneyless Society, @rainiawrites: I don’t need a workshop on work-life balance, I need the downfall of empire. By a beautiful flower (magnolia-like)

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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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