We do not want to believe (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Our worlds in denial safe from reality we do not want to believe the evil stalking our loved ones the ...
Our worlds in denial safe from reality we do not want to believe the evil stalking our loved ones the ...
Ours to remember the evil, the struggles the times of trial the journey of our clay Wanting to forget to ...
As if we are in the garden that night with Jesus his body shaking tears before the telling his story ...
Knowing the pain, not wanting to remember, yet submitting himself like Christ to the cross Sharing his walk faithful through ...
Knowing the suffering the bitterness of the cup God giving him comfort as he lifted it up Taking the poison ...
One man's death though somewhat cathartic yet bringing the pain the loss back to the forefront One man's death hardly ...
Easy with a demon putting a face on evil calling out bin Laden the leader of al Qaeda But now ...
Do we mourn even for the death of evil of a person bent on our destruction How can we be ...
Even the death of evil taken by his choosing refusing to submit to stand in the dock of justice Saddened ...
Murdering, terrorizing declaring war on his people not "the violence in Libya" but death in the streets The madman brutalizing ...
Bombing his people terror from the skies killing the innocents to perpetuate his lies No mandate for leadership only holding ...
The freedoms cut off taking them away shooting them in the street driving them into fear Killing their speech the ...
The struggle for freedom cloaked in his repression the protesters taken away abducted in the night The people fearful hearing ...
Stopping in our worship offering up a praise a thanksgiving for our freedom thankful for the difference what we take ...
Happy to consider the profound difference the freedoms we cherish to pray for their struggle to shake off the yoke ...
Murderer's marauders henchmen of the madman holding on to power by silencing the opposition Stealing the people from their own ...
Sitting down with evil pure oppression willing to crush resistance to silence other voices Sitting down with evil Like Goebbels ...
Sitting down with evil giving lies a stage complicit in their propaganda giving voice to their rage The opiate of ...
The chill of their lies buying time to regroup to fend off the people to abduct them in the night ...
Cringing in watching the lies of the sons the madness of the father washing off on them A stage for ...
Evil standing there spewing its bile the rantings of evil ready to kill a nation Rivers of blood executions of ...
Using their words turned right around transforming their hate into love Offering hope in this connection living out their faith ...
So easy to get cynical to see the glass half empty to walk about in a stupor in the rush ...
We have seen in the life of Jesus the Lord's promised Messiah come to this good earth His goodness is ...
For our prayers our faith to bear fruits our offerings to God we must believe in the fulfillment the answering ...
Christ needing to remind them to remind each one of us always to pray to lift our hopes, our concerns ...
God quite clear, not ambiguous what we must do to be right in God's sight to hate evil, to love ...
Black and white polar opposites not the gray of this world the instruction of God Hate evil, love good maintain ...
Only the Master providing giving us our rest resting where He leads in this troubled earth yet peace overflowing calming ...
God will judge each one according to our ways how we walk in this life the order of our days ...
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