Processing with God: Narrative Lectionary, Liturgy, Prayers
Holy In-Betweens
It is a lot of work this human Being Be ing Human Existence Thing
Sometimes I think we are eternally Suspended in the What Ifs
Embodiment is so difficult
If potential is always teasing (sometimes even mocking) me
How can I do what my body needs
When capitalism demands grind
And yet God you sit with us
How can I feel my feelings
The hard work of Grieving: Good things Bad things
To sit in comfort
To be thankful
To sit in-between both
To feel a slow stretch (within your comfort range of motion without any pain as my favorite yogi friend says) so slow and gentle that you are stretched in such a way that there is no pain and still
tears
Of relief comes dripping To your eyes
to my eyes
And
God is there in each tear
Reminding us sanctuary is holy Community is holy
Upholding your boundaries is holy
Silence
Is holy
Taking time alone is holy
You string the sky with stars and give us dandelions beautiful leaves and even single blades of grass to remind us of the holiness of the world
Breathe in Breathe out
To be lost in holiness
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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