Magnificat Now

God
See to your humans
For they are conceited

But I will Praise God
Who is Merciful to those who need
Good News 
Tear the mighty off their supremacy courts
Lift up the oppressed
Free the kidnapped 

Help us to magnify 
Your Power
and Glory
So that your Grace 
Overshadows
all of this evil
Feeding the hunger
Sending the Rich 
Techbros
Comfortable Politicians
White Supremacists
Away with Nothing
For their promises are Empty

But you God Remember
That your Promises
are Made of Empathy
and Mercy
And endure
Forever
And so we stand with You
God
The God of Immigrants
Chosen Names
and Found Families
Now and Forever
Amen.

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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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