Needing the Christ (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We are humbly standing on the earth, with feet of clay separated from God by the sin of the garden ...
We are humbly standing on the earth, with feet of clay separated from God by the sin of the garden ...
Relying on your grace oh Lord, I pray to thee needing your love, your strength to turn from sin to ...
The work, the lawn carved up into a series of squares crisp edges, overlapping rows breaking all up a section ...
Prophetic words, made real not theoretical, as he is our example laying down our lives for our friends putting our ...
Would Jesus torture, would he allow his disciples to torture would people acting as his friends, as children of God, ...
The prayer of Christ offered for the disciples all of us, for all generations praying that our joy, like his ...
The words he shared, that we may share in his joy But what is his joy, for us to share ...
Not servants, friends instead brought into understanding sharing with our brother the creator's plan no longer master and slave walking ...
unbound, no longer servants freed from our slavery transformed by his words his words of love made free, to be ...
not servants, no longer slaves our prayer, before the sermon changing the words, from "speak Lord, your servants are listening" ...
A child's question, shared by the pastor shared with the children, offered to the congregation all of us involved, active ...
That one vine, each of us branches, woven together bound in love, connected with one another a part of the ...
A little audience participation, the congregation greeting each other "Hi friend", warm smiles erupting spreading from face to face a ...
What makes these words so distinct, so special, so unique, that they must be in quotes, that each, in their ...
I feel humbled, by the power of the moment the days we are in the midst of, something electric, life ...
A fulfillment of prophesy, invoking a dream a vision of our world, as God might have it be a world, ...
Somehow, the wisdom of the founders, right these words he will join, as all who have gone before right to ...
In this moment in time with struggle and strife, war and oppression challenging threatening our world Words that bind, that ...
He repeated himself, in section after section always, always, always all of our days, all of our days, all of ...
Oh for a bill to steel the heart of the poet, or his neighbor at least A law to protect ...
"And who is our neighbor?", a lawyer asked so long ago, testing the Teacher, to know the meaning of the ...
D-Day and The Fourth Bookends of a month In the life of the Nation The death of a President Reminders ...
An old weathered section of snow fencing half buried in the lee of the dune gray skin gnarled by wind ...
What was it that the daily reflection asked? Oh yeah, it was, "If you were set down beside the carriage ...
Today the Masons are auctioning their discarded pomp: a trunk of turbans, gemmed and ostrich-plumed, and operetta costumes labeled inside ...
There is a section in my library for death and another for Irish history, a few shelves for the poetry ...
The neighbors' dog will not stop barking. He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark that he barks every time ...
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
THE PUDDING MASTER OF STANLEY BASIN Tree, snow and rock beginnings, the mountain in back of the lake promised us ...
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
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