God
Save us from the kinds
of Unity
that require us
to be uniform
God of twilights
and sunrises
God of Duck-billed Platypuses
Tadpoles
Bearded Lizards
Caterpillers and Butterflies
God of the mysterious Bumblebee
Every Single Marsuple alive (what a delightful word)
Zebras, Giraffes, which shouldn’t even be able to breath up there
God of Covenants with weirdo in the Bible
Joseph and their rainbow coat
of Found families between Mara and Naomi
God of grumpy Noahs and Jobs
God of rascals like Isaac
and amazing women like Tabitha, Deborah and Hagar
You are the God of many names
The God of a million Pronouns
You go by he/she/they probably more if we were being honest
You are the God of Immigrants, The God of the Forgotten
The God of slaves, the Disabled God, The God of the Poor, the God of the Widow, The God of the Unnamed, The Eunuch’s God, the Trans* God
You are the In-Between God, willing to go here and there, democratizing times and space to spend time with your children, affirming us in all of our ways of being.
Why anyone would think that
you call for conformity
in our unity
Rainbow God
Is beyond my understanding
Except…
I know that change is hard
Understanding differences is hard
that structure can help when people feel overwhelmed,
scared, angry, or otherwise out of control
God of Sabbath
God of Nourishment
God of Sufficency
I pray that you help those who are in Need
Get what they need
So that they stop enforcing
Unity
And embrace it
instead
Or perhaps you can
Find something else
To do with their time
I pray in Names
Of the diverse
communal
Trinitarian God
Amen
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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