Jesus Christ
Are you Here
Are you the One
John, the actual Baptist
who recognized
Jesus in womb asks
Because, in case you didn’t
notice Jesus
Things aren’t going so well
The world is on fire
And public funding
is being cut off
from the fire stations
And nobody has time
to volunteer anyway
And some people think
its because no one is praying enough
And yet
I see all the
art
songs
and
memes
And can’t help thinking
Don’t they count as prayers
God
And Jesus answers
I’m too busy
Healing
and Feeding
People
To come
to your
Prison
And answer
But
John
I will tell you one
Thing
You are right
No one on my side
Has the time
To be getting rich
And
sitting
on the
Sidelines
In Silk
Keep
Prophesying
Loving
And
Making art
And I’ll
Do
The Same
And we
will call that
Prayer?
Deal
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.
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