Processing with God: Narrative Lectionary, Liturgy, Prayers
New Year Prayer, God of Time
Timey Wimey Dr Who
God of Chronos and Kairos You know the calendar the timetables the budgets the to do lists and all the holy moments the smiles the blessings the hellos the goodbyes the transitions the deaths the baptisms the caretakings the laughter the hugs the holy moments of silences somehow you sneak kairos–God’s time in the midst of the chronos–measurable time
As we enter into this practice of trying to talk about both Grant us your Holy Spirit so that we can savor that you work in both Chronos and Kairos And open our hearts and minds and spirits to feel your presence in all the kinds of time that exist In the name of Jesus Christ– who entered Chronos, so that we might experience Kairos better, we pray. Amen.
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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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