Transfiguration

When faced
with Divinity
We find
your Equity
it has
ranges
upon ranges
like mountains
covering all
heights
and elevations-
and yet somehow
accessible to all

Confession:
Your Justice
contains
so much Mercy
It cuts
into me
with a Deepness
that I
cannot
comprehend it

There is no word
For your
Kind of Love
It Overshadows
all else

Sometimes I feel like
I need protection
From
the holiness
That I will
be blotted out
in your Presence

Glory
Spills out
and Touches me

And
I am
in Awe

And Realize
all
the Systems
of Injustice
and Hopelessness
that surround me

And I know
In that
Deepness
of My
Very Self
That I cannot Touch you

Without being
Tranformed
Transfigured

Changed

(And God do you know
how much we humans
Love change?
Not much)

But then..
You come
and protect
me
From your own Glory

And Divinity
With ..

Your very Self
Offering Divine

Shadow

Protection

Shade

A moment to collect
and Be
My
Self

And whilst
You Shadow
me
From You

I can see
God’s Loving-Kindness-Mercy-CovenantalParentalLoveFromtheWomb
And
the Whisper Comes
All Will Be Well
Listen
AllWillBeWell

Based on Psalm 36 and Luke 9

Feel free to use/adapt/share with credit to Pastor Katy Stenta “KatyandtheWord”

image

Haloed Jesus in a white outfit surrounded by Haloed two figures in Red robes, with three kneeling disciples. All Figures are brown skinned, the painting rendered is older and somewhat chipped. It is credited to Solomon Raj in India and can be found here https://globalworship.tumblr.com/post/110604805435/transfiguration-global-art

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Author: katyandtheword

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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