Processing with God: Narrative Lectionary, Liturgy, Prayers
Prayer for Precedented Times
God, I am praying for a boring year after Wars on Terror Great Recessions Housing Collapse A Pandemic
And those were only the large scale events
I pray for an uneventful new year with uninteresting times and very precedented events
I pray for peace in your personal life your home your town and city and country
I hope that thing seem corny and maybe not normal (because what is that anyway) but ordinary enough that pieces of trust can be built up again
I pray that this year does not feel like a bludgeon but comes in like a lamb and out like a lamb
I pray that there are moments of rest spaces of sanctuary places of healing and times of rebuilding
I pray for a prededented year full of laughter at jokes you may have already heard smiles with friends you have time to see and book and shows you feel comfortable enough to revisit, with glee
I pray for comfort for safety in the known for rituals that you love– your favorite haunts your tastiest meals your places to just be
I hope you are able to repeat yourself without fear
But most of all I pray that you have an uneventful New Year
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.
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