Me in church

🎼Knock on doors of new ideas,
test assumptions long grown stale,
for Christ calls from shores of wonder,
daring us to try and fail.

#transinchurch
#palmsunday

Me in church

🎼O sacred Head now wounded,
with grief and shame weighed down,
now scornfully surrounded
with thorns, thine only crown!

O sacred Head, what glory,
what bliss till now was thine!
Yet though despised and gory,
I joy to call thee mine.

#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼She who knew injustice—
pow'r to strike and kill—
sees our world of violence,
sees and grieves it still.
Let us stand with Mary then,
stand with those oppressed,
mirror God's compassion:
love expressed.

#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼 Let's talk together of the time
when we will share a feast,
when pride and power kneel to serve
the lonely and the least,

and joy will set the table
as we join hands to pray,
singing welcome,
welcome to this place.
You're invited to come and know
God's grace.

#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼 Hallelujah for my Jesus,
for his life's surprising course!
May I, too, live bold resistance
to injustice, hate, and force.

Surely peace, it has a cadence,
asking all of what we bring!
And if music is God breathing,
take a holy breath and sing!

#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼 There's a wild hope in the wind:
her whisper is heard on the breeze.
The gale is her shout that is calling us out.
There's a wild hope in the wind.

O God in the wind, come gather us in,
be our courage and promise.
The future is dim, but we want to live in
to a wild, wild hope.

#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼God weeps with us who weep and mourn;
God's tears flow down with ours,
and God's own heart is bruised and worn
from all the heavy hours
of watching. While the soul's bright fire
burned lower day by day,
and pulse and breath and love's desire
dimmed down to ash and clay.

#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼God, who in your holy gospel
Willa that all should truly live,
make us sense our share of failure,
our tranquility forgive.

Teach us courage as we struggle
in all liberating strife.
Lift the smallness of our vision
by your own abundant life.

#transinchurch
#abolishice

Me in church

🎼Today we sing with restlessness,
we ever look to you.
Infuse is with your Spirit, then,
give us your work to do.

Fill us with courage and resolve,
and grant humility,
as we employ our kinda and hearts
to right the wrongs we see.

#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼I bind my soul this day
to the neighbor far away
and the stranger near at hand,
in this town and in this land.

I bind myself in peace,
to make strife and envy cease.
God knit secure the cord
of my thrall-dom to the Lord.

#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼O Prince of Peace, you lead us
in ways of truth and grace.
May we be brave to practice
your peace in ev'ry place—
to love each fear filled nation,
to serve each troubled street.
How great the celebration
when peace and justice meet.

#transinchurch

Me in church on Christmas Eve

🎼Yet with the woes of sin and strife,
the world has suffered long;
beneath the heav'nly hymn have rolled
two thousand years of wrong,
and earring humankind hears not
the tidings which they bring.

O hush the noise and cease your strife
and hear the angels sing!

#transinchurch
#christmaseve

🎼God is logos, hidden wisdom,
God is what we cannot see,
God is shrouded in deep silence,
God is Holy mystery,
yet with dark explosive power,
we meet our Divinity.

#longestnight
#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼Christ, eternal sun of justice,
Christ the rose of wisdom's seed,
come to bless with fire and fragrance
hours of hearing, hurt, and need.

In the lonely, in the stranger,
in the outcast, his from view:
child who comes to grace the manger,
teach our hearts to welcome you.

#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼Flower whose fragrance tender
with sweetness fills the air,
dispel in glorious splendor
gloom and grief everywhere

True man yet very God,
from sin and death he saves us,
and lightens ev'ry load.

#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼 O come thou Dayspring, come and cheer
our spirits by thine advent here.
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
and death's dark shadow put to flight.

#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼My soul proclaims with wonder
the greatness of the Lord,
rejoicing in God's greatness,
my spirit is restored.

To me God has shown favor,
to one the world thought frail,
and ev'ry age will echo
the angel's first "All hail."

#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼There is a line of women
who took on pow'rful men,
defying laws and scruples
to let life live again;
and though despite their triumph,
their stories stayed untold,
God kept their numbers growing,
creative strong and bold.

#transinchurch

Jennifer and me

🎼Give us the peace of vision clear
to see each other's good, our own,
to joy and suffer not alone:
the Love that casts aside all fear.

#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼Lead us forward into freedom;
from despair your world release,
that, redeemed from war and hatred,
all may come and go in peace.

Show how through care and goodness
fear will die and hope increase.

#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼Could we with ink
the ocean fill,
and were the skies
of parchment made;
were ev'ry stalk
on earth a quill,
and everyone
a scribe by trade;

to write the love
of God above
would drain the ocean dry;
nor could the scroll
contain the whole
though stretched from sky to sky.

#transinchurch

Me at church

"The Lord works vindication and justice for all who are oppressed."
- Psalms 103:6
#transinchurch

Me being all trans in church

🎼From the halls of power
to the fortress tower,
not a stone will be left on stone.
Let the king beware
for your justice tears
ev'ry tyrant from his throne.
The hungry poor
shall weep no more
for the food they can never earn...

#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼Help us to help each other, Lord,
each other's load to bear,
that all may live in true accord,
our joys and pains to share.

#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼God of the poor,
friend of the weak,
give us compassion, we pray.
Melt our cold hearts,
let tears fall like rain.
Come, change our love from a spark
to a flame.

#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼Holy Spirit, bring your message,
burn and breathe each word anew
deep into our tired living
till we strive your work to do.

Teach us love and trusting kindness,
lend our hands to those who hurt.
Breathe upon your congregation
and inspire us with your Word.

#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼There is a knocking at our door,
sound of the homeless of the world,
voice of the frightened refugee,
cry of the.chikdren in the cold,
asking the least that is their right,
safety and shelter for the night.

#transinchurch
#faithfullyqueer

Me in church

🎼From the halls of power
to the fortress tower
not a stone will be left on stone.
Let the king beware
for your justice tears
ev'ry tyrant from his throne.

#transinchurch

Photo of Evelyn dressed in an alba holding a cross in front of the altar facing approaching bishop.

First time altargirling since transition. I am really grateful that I found the church I call home.
#transinchurch

Me in church

🎼In the rifted Rock I'll hide me,
till the storms of life are past,
all secure in this blest refuge,
heeding not the fiercest blast.

#transinchurch
#faithfullyqueer