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Easter Blessings, throughout the Season

Good News can come through emptiness  Mary didn’t know Jesus was risenShe turned to a stranger The person who was tending the dirtAnd asked for helpDo you see the Easter moment It’s hiding right thereIt’s not in the race beforeNo trumpets or proclamations in JohnIt starts in a moment of hoping for hopeof reaching out in planting seedsAfter all God was the first GardenerIs it little wonder…

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Every Knee

This is my conviction Upon the return of Christ every knee will bow Bc Jesus will return kneeling and serving  And we will all kneel to get next to him  This is Maundy Thursday This is God kneeling, stooping,  “inclining Gold’s ear” to get close to us in the person of ChristThis is loving and serving Illustration From LaTonya Jackson…

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Almighty Trans* God

Trans* GodYou are theGod of Abram to Abrahamof Mara to NaomiSaul to Paul You call us by our Chosen Name You are the God of Joseph of theRainbow, Princess, Coat of their momwho found a family in EgyptJesus who found Kinship withMary, Martha and LazarusYou understand the importance ofBelonging somewhere other than with blood relationsAlmighty Trans* God of Abraham, you knowThat sometimes you have…

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Hosanna, a Protest Song

Hosanna is a Protest SongSungin the wordsOf the meek it starts from the back doorwith a murmura requestfor a healing for a friendan opening in a roofa touch on a cloaka plea for an (unnamed) daughter at home Hosanna is a Protest Songit bends the norms of societyblurring the lines betweenSamaritan and JewishSadducees and PhariseesMale and femaleSalve and Free Hosanna is a Protest songReshaping…

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Disarmed God

Disarmed GodI rememberthatYou disarmedYour Divine selfPermanently That you hung your weapon in the sky:PubliclyAs a reminderThat you arethe Nonviolent GodThe God of Love It is little wonderThat some people find Rainbows Offensive Jesus ChristI rememberThat you disarmedThose who wouldStone a womanin the street That you healedThe blind manOf sins and his disabilityso that he had to be seen as a…

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Peace and Perfume: O the Humanity

Blessed are the PeacemakersSays JesusGodTeach UsTo MakeCreatePolicy EvenShalom Peace that isWholenessHealththe kind thatForbids Dehumanizing one another GodYou knowBecauseYou embodiedThis being HumanThere really is noSuch thing asMicroagressions That is just usDoing violenceto one another In another wayIs there sucha thing as“I dehumanized youBut it didn’t count?” “I did violenceto your…

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Crumbling Empires

Herod doesn’t winNor does CaesarThe Empire will crumbleGod is with the marginalizethe poorthe imprisonedthe oppressedthe abused the tortured Jesus walks with the different the disabled the forgotten the misgendered the repressed the voicelessthe hurt  Our Divine is all about housingeveryonefeeding the hungry clothing the nakedand meting out equity and justiceand true liberation It is writtenIt…

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Free the Bebes

So thankful Liam is free Now free all the bebesFrom age 0-100Are we not all Children of God?Warehousing people is evil Luke 4:18I know they almost threw Jesus off a cliff Because like it or notProtests and WorshipGo hand in handOr prayer isWhen you liberate theImprisoned Or welcome The immigrantIn the name of Our Immigrant GodHere weAreCharged withGoing outAnd gettingJustice forThe AbusedAnd…

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Psalm 3: Prayer for Minneapolis in the midst of danger

God,You know our foes are endlessThey are armed to the teethWith gunsnefarious policiesand hateAnd many are saying God cannot help youFor these White SupremacistsAre they not calling on the same God?But God, you are my protectionBecause, you sustain the Love Within my heartreminding me of small childrenin bunny hatsOf women in carsAnd disarmed observersAnd police officers leading Jan 7th…

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None of This Nonsense Please

God,It seems thatthe senseless violence goes onand onICE spills onto whitenessThe Not peace in PalestineThe invasion of Caracas Not to mentionkidnapping of neighborsHealthcare, childcare and education being destroyed And all the thingsI confess I’ve started to dread Fridayswhen the Admin seems to strikeAnd we all know about the Eptsein VictimsBut the filesGodThe violence continuesAs…

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Epiphany

Epiphany https://open.substack.com/pub/katystenta/p/epiphany-b51?r=1qkzy4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Epiphany is aboutinclusionand Peace Epiphany is strongerThan insurrectionand War That was the pointHerods So be frightened Our path will continue to beA different wayLit by the Star of Peace Your sneakiness and violent waysAre no match for Our GodThank Sweet…

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Immigrant God

Immigrant GodBe with usBe with those separated from familiesTeach us how to make room at the innRemind usThat you translatedYourself into HumanityBecause you understoodThat we humans We hate translatingTeach us to keep at this translation workof human to understand divineof cultural understandingof the beauty of change (we humans aren’t so good at change) Translate usinto a Christmas peoplewe…

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Advent Time

AdventBecause we aren’t readyAndGod is hereIn the darkIn the waiting room God is hereIn the sadnessIn the not quite revolution yetThere is no shame in adventThere is sanctuary in the quietAnticipationItchiness of almostThere is holinessIn the time of not quiteThere is connectionIn the confusionOf complicatedNot having our Shit together yetThere is beautyIn creating ritualsto wait togetherSo that…

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Advent Hope

God I know I don’t needTo look for you Advent is ina minor key Because Christ is already hereIn the ICE prisons Christ is already herewith the unhoused Christ is already hereat the wartorn rubble Christ is already here But it’s hardto see the face of Jesus Fear notYou say And you coax us tofree the prisoners To distribute foodwithout worry about who is deserving As you remind usWhat…

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Trans Day of Remembrance

Content warning: Trans* Day of Remembrance: Mentions Abuse, Death, Murder, Abuse, Suicide GodYou know thatwhen your veryexistenceis resistance Then remembranceis morethan a story It is a celebrationthat Lifeis complication And beautifuland every timeWe remember Our Trans* siblingsWe co-createA world Where mourningand lamentare not it We re-memberre-connectre-presentreality Knowing thatone…

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Advent Candles, Narrative Lectionary & RCL, Blue Christmas, Advent Hymns to Christmas Tunes Other Useful Links

Week 1 God of Hope you Sustain usEven when the world is on fireWe walk with you, and hear your voiceWe walk with you, and follow your voiceWe hope for a better world, in the meantime, send angels, messengers with your voiceWalk with us, Fill us with the courage to walk with one anotherEven the world feels on fireFill us with Hope Possible Advent Hymns: Open my Eyes that I May See, Live Into…

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Prayers as the Storm Comes

Praying so hard for Jamaica and the Caribbean Praying for the planetPraying for those in the eye of the hurricane PrayingPrayingPraying because disaster relief has to come fasterwith less resourcesPraying because Climate Change is Harshand Denial is Harsher Praying because Paper Towels are not enoughPraying because my neighborhood is big enoughto hold anyone in needbut I do not have capacity…