Peace

Peace tastes like
bubbles being blown
free and never poppin’
soapy clean on the tongue

Peace smells like
dandelions and clovers
Growing wildin’ clumps
across the meadows fresh
to roll across, the better to
catch the minglin’ your nose

Peace feels like cool autumn days
Just crisp enough for sweaters
and everyone to be out
walkin’ jumpin’ crunchin’ leaves

Peace sounds like the hush
after snow–where sounds
are crystallin’, sparkling in clarity
and the hush magicin’ throughout

Peace feels like abundance
enough food for everyone
a safe place to be layin’ one’s head
Kinship and friendship without jealousy
Space to be creatin’ and buildin’

Have you met Peace Today?


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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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