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So here’s a prayer for justice, the rip-roaring kind,
full of righteousness, and grace and hope.
Even if it has to start as a trickle,
Because, you and I know God,
I will take all the justice I can get.
So here’s a prayer for all the justice,
any of the justice we can find today, and everyday.
Please God,
Thank you.
Amen.
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the stuff that we worry about, the money and the possessions and the taxes, and the things.
And I can imagine Jesus, whispering in our ears
Reminding us, coaxing us, murmuring to us “don’t worry about the stuff,
I didn’t put you here to worry about the stuff….
I put you here to worry about the people….
Consider the lilies of the field,
the birds and the bees,
and the cute koala bears….”
I think about how generous you are God, how you don’t mind if we give money and laws to Caesar and the government, how utterly unbothered you are by the fact.
Because that’s not what you are worried about.
Instead, you are too busy learning the name of every single being in the universe. Instead you are too busy
healing up the wounds of the forgotten
telling those who live in-between that their lives are beautiful and radical and good
you are too busy doing the real work of the world.
So, though I need the stuff God, you know, to live.
I will try to make sure everyone has enough stuff,
and worry instead, about the people.
God please help us to love and worry and serve the people, and remind us–all of us,
that you created us, not to make stuff
but to love people.
In Christ’s name we pray.
Amen.
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If you find these resources useful please consider contributing to my Doctorate in Ministry in Creative Writing! I have already Successfully funded year 1, and am now working on Year 2!s
God, No one told me that apocalyptic events were going to go one for so long.
I had never considered, when I watched the floods and fires in movies,
when havoc of the post apocalypse was depicted in my novels–too often it was skated over about just how long the chaos ensued.
So here we are
After years of warnings and castrophic governances–
a pandemic of, as I used to say as teen, totally epic portions, did not strike me as such a long term event.
I know, I knew that recovery would take forever.
Thank God, that I have it drilled into me, that recovery takes longer than the actual event, and I am aware and girded, appropriately, to start healing.
But I didn’t know
That my kids will be entering their third year of pandemic schooling.
That I would be jostling back and forth between regulations and meeting the needs of so many differing circumstances of ministry from 2019 til the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty one.
and a multi year timeframe to just have the apocalyptic event itself, was not quite on my schedule Lord.
I thought catastrophes were sudden, and fast.
Where is my cut scene?
I hear we hit the economic depressive climax (lowmax?) in April 2020?
Just goes to show that money is a human made thing, don’t it God?
Lord, as we face this ongoing apocalyptic event,
As we minister in these times.
Give us what it is we need.
(Whatever that might be, because, I’m not sure what that is right now)
Because this story isn’t even in the the rearview mirror yet, and we are not yet ready to know how to tell it yet.
A colleague said it feels like we are Ron Weasley, working with a broken Wand,
doing the best we can–
No magic wand, no program, no methodology to “fix things” just presence and patience and prayer.
and maybe sitting down and reading Revelation again, or John, or Acts,
or Frederick Buechner, or Elie Wiesel or Martin Luther King Jr or J. R. R. Tolkien or Ursula K. Le Guin or Toni Morrison or Langston Hughes or Madeline L’engle or Octavia Butler or N. K. Jemison or….or….
Because God knows,
We’ve had to Chaplain Apocalypses before,
and we will have to do it again.
Be with us as we do, we pray.
Amen.
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