Before Martin (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Our pastor, setting the stage, the precedent, these days, these events, our times into their context, framing our thoughts back ...
Our pastor, setting the stage, the precedent, these days, these events, our times into their context, framing our thoughts back ...
In their reflection, our flaws, our lapses, our weakness, humanness, reality, blemishes and all Blank slates, ready to be filled ...
We are born flawed, vulnerable driven by our wills, crashing into one another Human beings are to be forgiving of ...
A grandfather's perspective, worthy of reflection the world, so coarse, so raw, so dangerous So much more, human made hazards ...
Our prayer, the one He taught us, The Lord's Prayer, to the father given, spoken, always in love reflecting His ...
The wisdom of Solomon, a pale reflection, blurry image The Son spoke of the Father's love a parable of the ...
A father, grandfather, everyman pondering, musing, breathing out the lessons our children teach in word and in deed, mirroring our ...
The words of the scripture tell many stories, layered truths the nature of man, the character of God the love ...
The prayer He taught us, of the savior, God incarnate beginning with a name of God a loving intimate name, ...
A wish, a prayer, humbly raised that heaven would come to earth the world to be a better place teach ...
Hallowed be the name of our father, God we hallow, praise, call him blessed in response, natural, read God's love, ...
His story, the pastor's words so familiar to me a smile, knowing, grew on my face He told of their ...
The gospel lesson, the only scripture not read from the lectern, not this day The word of God preached from ...
The true nature of God revealed in the story of the two sons the one who roamed and the one ...
The words of the story, labeled the Prodigal Son; but this is a mistake The deeper meaning, for all of ...
A wayward Jewish boy separated from family, from his people, from his faith, focused on his wealth, All was lost, ...
What a revelation, those first moments discovery of the behaviors of children, of disobedience, and passing the blame, in that ...
In the synoptic gospels, we are told, by the savior, the first born of the resurrection, the first in the ...
We, like the shepherds, the wise men, the father and mother, go to the stable each year, at this time, ...
Seeing Christ is seeing God, wherever we encounter him in the words of the holy scriptures in the lessons of ...
It was one time in the temple, two intertwined stories, continuous moments seamlessly woven by the master to the listening ...
A deepening understanding, breathing in the word lesson by lesson, example by example, in parable and in service. Showing all ...
His false piety, summed up in his certainty of his own standing, earning a ticket to joy judging others in ...
Before Christ lived on the earth God breathed and the Word was born the Word of God breathed into life ...
A lesson of service, of comfort, of love An unlikely instrument of the Savior's teachings A testing question, a lawyer's ...
Timid, blind, fearful men rise and speak with power, with courage, with resolve, defy the powerful, the authority, the council, ...
The words, the names tumbled off her tongue sending thoughts through me common words given new life new meaning in ...
Let them declare Jihad then, let them despair that I will speak the truth as I see it, and where ...
PREFACE If---and the thing is wildly possible---the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
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