You can’t erase Queer It doesn’t matter How hard You try With bullying Hate Guns Bonfires And bookbans
Shaming cultures And evil gods Can’t make People “Don’t say gay”
Evidence of “Roommates” Hermaphrodites Two Spirits (don’t appropriate) Third genders And Trans* People Go back to the beginning Of time
And Don’t Get me started On the Bible With the Poly Trinity David & Jonathan Joseph’s Rainbow/Lady’s Coat God’s pronouns Revealed in flames Ruth and Naomi Song of Songs The Eunuch The Bible is Queer
You can’t erase LGBTQIA It Only Gets clarified As time Goes on So YES You have To learn New terms #NotSorry
Call to Worship God we need your justice For such a time as this to light our way When salt and light is not enough, Jesus we need you Come, let us look for God God we are looking for your love Come, let us love God together
Call to Confession: God you call to your love in the good and the bad times. Come let ourselves to God
Prayer of Confession: God, we confess that it is hard to come to you in uncertain times. How can anything be worthy of love at such a time as this? Who can sort out there feelings in this mess? We want time, to clean up, to get things in order, to research, to know things. God, you remind us that you are the city on the hill, not us. You are the salt in our food, not us. Be our salt and light, and remind us that we are allowed to be a mess and still love we pray. Amen
Assurance of Pardon: Jesus comes in the midst of emergencies, full of grace, so we know the truth: In Jesus Christ we are forgiven, right now. Amen.
Prayer of the Day, Dedication: God, remind us the Grace does not wait, because we need its immediacy. Let us go forth full of grace we pray. Let it spill from our hands, our mouths and feet as we go, so that we may become the very embodiment of your love. May this be our prayer as we go about the world. Amen.
Hymns: We Are One In the Spirit, Here I am Lord, O Come O Come Emmanuel, I Love the Lord Who Heard My Cry, I Wonder as I Wander, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
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I long for justice I ache for it so much that when I go to bed at night I am convinced that it whispers to me In a language too complicated for human ears.
And when I wake up and hear of courts and punishments and other things
My soul sits confused unable to responds to these paltry efforts.
I want justice that feeds the hungry, frees the prisoner and yes breaks the teeth of my enemy–but in such a way that I am too busy partying to notice.
Jesus, did every meal with you taste like justice or hope comfort and freedom?
Or was it enough to just sit with you?
Holy Spirit, I find that this longing for justice is really something. It is not the gift I asked for, and yet it was given to me–unasked and so here I am
Not waiting for justice, Because we all know, justice does not allow one to wait. But still, Walking, Running, Resting towards justice, because I do not know any other way to be.
And that’s why I talk, yell and cry to you God. It’s this justice hole in my soul. You poke it and prod it with me, like the great physician you are.
And say, where does it hurt?
And confirm.
Yes. Yes, We should work on that.
Here we go again God.
Amen.
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