Ep. 48 - Non-Traditional Seasons

A liturgy for non-traditional seasons.

To the Guider of my steps, the Overseer of my comings and goings,

Thank You for placing me in the middle of this community.

Thank You for this non-traditional work that You have given me.

As I go through my day, wandering back and forth

in and out of the community around me,

It is easy to feel isolated and alone,

like an outsider everywhere I go

even in my own classroom.

I miss the traditional role that I used to have,

the familiar scripts and the unspoken understanding,

of my place and my role in society.

Remind me, when everything feels unfamiliar

and I feel like I don’t belong,

that You left Your vocation, Your place of belonging,

to walk among people You did not belong with,

and to undertake the most untraditional of roles.

As I wander back and forth, delicately balanced between communities,

seeking to understand and be understood by those around me,

help me see Your footprints in the steps laid out for me.

Remind me of Your wanderings and Your weary laboring,

as You traversed a world where You did not belong,

finding no place to lay Your head.

Would You remind me of the path You walked,

in and out of our humanity,

back and forth between divine and incarnate,

In the midst of it, never overlooking the ones You sought.

Thank You for modeling non-traditional in the best way possible,

seeing your role as a blessing and never a burden.

You used Your role, dancing on the fringes of society,

to bless and call out those who were also on the fringes,

dangling on the edge of exclusion.

And You called them to be Your students.

Help me to take joy in my role of walking the fringes,

and use it to seek and find the lost,

finding my students among the overlooked,

and choosing to see with Your eyes, those You are seeking.

Amen

Evan D, Spring 2026

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