Christ won’t be in Church
This Christmas
He is too busy
To go to Washington
He never had $7 to spare
Anyway
You’ll catch him
Catching rainwater
For those trapped in Gaza
Healing the sick flocks to feed up Pakistan
He won’t be singing hymns
Except maybe in respite in Syria, Cambodia, Sudan;
Tucked into the corner of a charity school in the Philippines
Cradling people
Under his wings
He’ll be lying on the floor of echoing, ancient churches of Armenia—unconcerned by their unadorned emptiness
He is in the shadows of the room
Where one sits weeping, in grief
I know where Jesus will be
In
the food pantries
After
The
Holidays
Bare
You know…
Jesus never did
like crowds
anyway
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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.
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