I don’t know him
God you know
The kind of denial Peter made
Sudden, unbidden, accidental
Yet complete
Peter did not mean to deny Jesus
But the words once said
Felt true in the moment
He did not know this man
Who willingly went to the cross
Spoke in parables
And left him alone in an angry mob
And Peter
God knew
Never had the gift of keeping quiet
No I do not know him
The words echoed again
As Peter felt lost and alone
Peter watched himself say the words
And thought “what am I doing”
No I do not know him
Peter said a third time
Cock—a—Doodle
Doo
And on the third Day
I will rebuild the Temple
A voice whispered
And Peter say hands breaking bread
And embracing Lazarus
And Jesus resting on a rock
And a tear trickled down
And Peter thought
Did I ever know him?
And his tongue
Finally
Stood still
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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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