Processing with God: Narrative Lectionary, Liturgy, Prayers
Waiting for Results, a Prayer
God, We just don’t know
Picture of the United States drawing scribbled over/colored by a child “What we know so far” Shared by Dan Chan @danchaon.bsky.social on bluesky social app
So many have done what they can to sew peace
To establish humanity human rights
And Lord have mercy because we are already exhausted
“Next Week Has Been Exhausting” by Diane Duane
Anticipatory Exhaustion may be the hardest
I remember when my child was in the run away and legitimate insomnia (beyond normal) phase
And I would wake up looking forward to a nap I would have for the day after today
God you know My soul is weary Is your soul weary God?
Because even after the election
You know We know That no matter the outcome
There is hard work to do
This is about more than leadership
(I remember in the Old Testament When Hebrew people wanted a King and you warned them That is not enough)
And yet Breathe in: I am here Breathe out: God is here
This is true today This is true tomorrow
This is how I will wait Because all good work counts
Maybe especially when it seems like it doesn’t
Pneuma Holy Spirit Breathe for me When I can’t
Breathe in: I am here Breathe out: God is here
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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