CW: Violent images
When I say,
How many times Lord?
I am not talking about some
nebulous math problem
that I want solved
I am more pointing to the fact
that the human brain
is incapable
of processing more
than a certain amount
of sensory
input
And the battering
of an apartheid
is so True
that my brain
has trouble processing the
Fact of the Matter
I know it, I see it, I say it
But I know
I have not processed it
the images, numbers and facts
the screams, blood and children
lie strewn across my brain
And all I can think is
How many times Lord?
It is a variation
But not the same
prayer I pray
about Gun Violence
The angry tears that clench my jaw
and make me a bleeding heart
That believes this time we will all figure out
how souls will out weigh the capitalism of violence
A rainbow in the sky promises
How Many Times?
Nonbinary Kids
Trans Women on Sports Teams
Trans Men trying to Dance
To Kill a Mockingbird is Banned
A White Woman in a Kitchen calls a Human Being Illegal
And calls for everyone to be scared
How Many Times Lord?
The Math of Getting it,
Doesn’t seem to be getting through
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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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