2024
A year of erasers
Cloud watching
And Companionable silences
May your journey be light burdened
Your books be easy to read
And shows easy to watch
(Or easy to put down if they are not)
May you have permission to fail
To cry
To take comfort
I hope you have the good kind of phone calls
And comforting visits
And good boundaries
And may you taste something amazing
And feel at home in your body
And sit with beloved ones
I hope you feel enjoyment in something fun
May you be silly for no reason
And I hope that 2023 is not about what you do
But that you are able to be your full self
And be safe
And healthy
And in community
May you touch the new year
With a sense of who you are
And with a sense of wistfulness
Because we are worth who we are
Becoming
May your blessings increase in the New Year
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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