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Gratitude

As my Graduation approaches on May 31st 2024, I wanted to thank you again for your support. Your generosity has not only allowed me to study, explore my theology and write my thesis “Let’s Yell at God” but also to write a number of Sermon Series, contextual Psalms and Prayers and Liturgies for people to reflect on, pray and share. It is my hope someday to publish if the way be clear (a phrase…

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Call me Doctor

I have just completed my defense!!! I am ready to graduate What an amazing 3 years! So grateful for all the support…could not have done it without everyone. https://gofund.me/6e3e45b9 ($80 to go)

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Community and PCUSA Insurance Changes

Book of Order E-1.0301 The Church is the body of Christ. Christ gives to the Church all the gifts necessary to be his body. The Church strives to demonstrate these gifts in its life as a community in the world (1 Cor. 12:27–28): The Church is to be a community of faith, entrusting itself to God alone, even at the risk of losing its life. The Church is to be a community of hope, rejoicing in…

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#BOP #insurance #medical dues #single payer healthcare

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Casualties of War: Not worth the Cost

When violenceOversteps (always)Realizing tooLate theDamage CooksEnteringNeutralTerritoryRippedApartLethally KeepInchingTowardsCeasefireHelpEnd the WarNow

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#Gaza #peace #War #world central Kitchen

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TDOV, Resurrection

Jesus I can’t see youI don’t knowI’m in mourning And Jesus scooped us under her wingsAnd let us touch the wounds—know what it’s like to have to leave parts, family and self behind on offer to resurrect in visible and invisible ways And God whispered once again that we are fiercely and wonderfully made Until we could find ourselves againBlessed Trans Visibility DayMay you be you full selfAnd…

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#Christ is Risen #Easter #resurrection #TDOV #trans day of visibility

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Holy Saturday

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#crucifixion #holy Saturday #Holy Week #lent #Loss #Mourning

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Good Friday

The tearson my Facethe BrokenButterflyBowlShatteredreminding meOf all I missingI ache, remembering the Soup I ate from itat a Homeless-Dinner-Slash- Leadership-training As I touch the piecesI can almost smellthe countless Ashes I burned InitForAsh WedsSayingWrite EverythingYou want to give to GodOn a Piece of PaperAnd I will Burn it for you The Holy Spriritwill Somehow transpose itTo the…

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#crucifixion #Good Friday #Holy Week #lent #Mourning #tears #weeping

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Maundy* Thursday

Jesus,we all love to eatI love to think of you taking the breadAnd sharing it in the traditional way–for it was probably a tear and share loaf(as bread was so often served, flat and ready)And then you proclaimed the most mundaneof acts Holy Whenever you break bread togetherYou proclaim my deathuntil I return Then you allow for fellowshippingand take the cupAnd share it againbecauseLet’s face…

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Blessed Holy Trauma Week

Blessed Holy Trauma WeekWhere the spying on our friendsCome out to hauntour WednesdaysWe feel the reality That not all of our relationships are safe Where the Tablewhen we eat togethermight feel hauntedby those who are missingthe ones who have diedOr the ones we are not speaking to(hopefully for just now, Lord hear our prayer)The echoes of lonesome pandemic times…We remember that Jesus ate with…

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The Key Bridge

God,An ancient bridgeConnecting the infrastructureof everything crumpled A boatthat was hugelost control(investigation pending)And hit it And six peoplewho happened to be Immigrantswho were hard workerswith familiesseeking a better lives they were fixing potholeInstead they drowned And I have been pondering The metaphoric proportions Of a ship too big to stopout of controlHeading the wrong…

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Peter’s Denial, Thrice

I don’t know himGod you knowThe kind of denial Peter made Sudden, unbidden, accidentalYet complete Peter did not mean to deny JesusBut the words once saidFelt true in the moment He did not know this manWho willingly went to the crossSpoke in parablesAnd left him alone in an angry mob And PeterGif knewNever had the gift of keeping quiet No I do not know him The words echoed againAs Peter…

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#3 times deny #before the cock crows #crucifixion #Good Friday #Holy Week #lent #Peters’s Denial #three times deny

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Palm Sunday walk

Enter Jerusalem by the back doorBe Greeted by childrenProclaim PeaceAccept Hosanna as the Call to LiberationScare the Powers and PrincipalitiesThru HealingAnd Preaching if the Good News So not stop the ParadeLet us add to the Good thingsIn a week that will be FullOf all that is Human Ride on on a Neutered, Baby HorseTowards the TempleInstead of the PalaceBeginning an ApocalypseRevealing To…

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#Hosanna #Palm Sunday #save us

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Dissertation Time

Guess what is due this week?????? My Dissertation! Guess what happened. I went from needing $600 to less than $350 ($340 to be exact) I am going to print out the pages and try to do final final, FINAL edits and send it all in for the 15th All the support has been amazing $10-$100 gifts are making all of the difference! I am down to the last 10% of my FINAL year goal. It is amazing. Thank you so…

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Daylight Savings

Daylight Savings BlessingBlessings on everyone. ESPECIALLY every single person who works through Daylight Savings. Blessings on overnight who get to skip an hour of work. Blessings on the parents who will have their schedules thrown into chaos forever. Blessings on pet owners who don’t speak dog and cat. Blessings on sanitation workers, nurses, teachers and ever other early morning worker who…

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#blessings #daylight savings #time change #transition

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Life Breath

Breathe in: God you are with MeBreathe out: Be with me GodIt is a serious thing OliverCommaMary saysTo be aliveOn this fresh morning Is a serious thing Because we know the worldis still brokenBut listen a bird is singingthe sun breaks through the cloudAnd the children are askingImpertinent and true questionsthat break through the mire Startling a laughbecause evil is ridiculousand life is…

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#breath #Hope #life #Mary Oliver #Pnuema #Renewal #respair #resurrection

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How Many Times Lord

CW: Violent images When I say,How many times Lord?I am not talking about somenebulous math problemthat I want solved I am more pointing to the factthat the human brainis incapableof processing morethan a certain amount of sensoryinput And the batteringof an apartheidis so Truethat my brain has trouble processing the Fact of the MatterI know it, I see it, I say it But I knowI have not…

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#Justice #peace #War

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Peace, on the Bread Lines

Feed my sheepJesus saidWhen the world was endingwhen everything was changing When the intrigue was thickAnd you didn’t know who to trustAgain Jesus said, Feed my sheep And although the end seemed nearAnd war seemed to be everywhereAnd things were apocalypticA word that means opening, uncoveringThings that are opening upAs well as everything that is collapsing Jesus leaned in close to his…

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#bread lines #Feed my sheep #peace