Psalm 119, God’s Justice is Grace

God
I think of the blessings
Integral
Individuals
of Integrity 
Hearts
without Splintering
Uapologitically
Following God
of Empathy
and Love

The Walking
Working
Stay Awake
Disciples

Always
Looking
of the Prodigal
–Which means
the lost, marginal
not yet accounted for
Among us. One
Might say
Those
Who need to be
still included in
the covenant

The ones
God is calling
To their
imago
DEI*

Your Precepts
Are Alive
In them

Even when
So-called Princes
Techno-crats
Billinonaires 
“The Powerful”
Plot

My soul clings
To the Word of God
Which feeds me

Even when I confess to
Fading Away With
Being Broken By
The Sorrow of the World
I remember 
Your Word
God

Which Established
All
And

(Thank God
Almighty)

Existed
Before humanity

And our fights
Over politics
Governances
And even the concept of money

Then I meditate
On
The
Wondrous
Pieces Of
God

Teach me your ways God
Deep than
Human definitions
Divine
Love
Liberation
Tzadik**

If comforts me, Jesus
Especially when I am hot
with indignation from evil
–which is often these days
Because there is a lot
of stupid evil in the world

But you are my
Sweet inheritance
Please hurry
To put your Sweet
Holy Spirit Honey
tasting Good News
in My mouth

Tasting
the Path
Of the Precepts
That I eternally
Follow
I Pray


Piecing my
way
To a
Promised
Peace
That
Proclaims
Amen
From
Sunday
to Sunday

Amen
Amen

*DEI can also stand for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

*justice, equity, loving-kindness: covenantal care for others especially the marginal 

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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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