Daylight Savings

Daylight Savings Blessing
Blessings on everyone. ESPECIALLY every single person who works through Daylight Savings.

Blessings on overnight who get to skip an hour of work.

Blessings on the parents who will have their schedules thrown into chaos forever.

Blessings on pet owners who don’t speak dog and cat.

Blessings on sanitation workers, nurses, teachers and ever other early morning worker who even have to get up earlier.

Curses on capitalism that cannot let us just work an hour less in the winter without having us pay for things on productivity.

Blessings on the children, sweet and innocent, grumpy and yet still full of energy—how do they do that? We were that and yet it remains a mystery.

Blessings on the sunshine, returning to us, may we appreciate it and treat the earth with respect.

Blessings on coffee, tea, milk, water, fruit juice, our favorite breakfast—whatever it is that keeps us fueled and going through the day. Only God would provide such beautiful variety for us.

Blessings on the coming evening, full of respite and relief.

Blessings on this change, may we transition as best we can, though we are only human. Give us the life-giving practices we need to sustain and grow through it 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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