The Voice of Inclusion (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
With the prostitutes, the tax collectors with the unclean, the lepers Christ is the voice of inclusion showing us his ...
With the prostitutes, the tax collectors with the unclean, the lepers Christ is the voice of inclusion showing us his ...
Christ loved us anyway judging us not filled with compassion sharing his life with us Eating with the outcasts the ...
Her laugh infectious her smile so wide how I miss that each Wednesday night The sparkle in her mischief the ...
If we hate our brothers, our sisters just for who they are can we love our God with all our ...
Deeper meaning of the words shared given as an offering free to the world hoping their will plant a seed ...
Marking another different from us as if that made them unworthy unable to approach the cross All of us human ...
May God always keep you in His grip like the potter and the clay may we ever be malleable giving ...
Maybe patience perseverance in adversity staying on the path stepping stones laid to make the way easier over the space ...
So easily thrown away so easily tossed out if we bar their way if we cast our neighbors out Ours ...
Basic human rights to love and to live offered to each only by the Father to give We cannot take ...
Our worlds in denial safe from reality we do not want to believe the evil stalking our loved ones the ...
The most vile abuse targeted because of their different attacked for who they are just because of their color, their ...
Are we complicit when we stand in silence pernicious discrimination devaluing our neighbor Excluding them from inclusion blind to the ...
The stigma of difference setting us apart when we are all one fallen before the Lord each of us sinners ...
The tractor mowing the hill the schoolyard alive with green children filling the elementary swings though some are eighth graders ...
Timid disciples captive to the world failing to speak to carry God's holy word Bound by our fears setting peoples ...
My prayer oh Lord that when my Master calls that I would respond to answer your word That I would ...
Turning our back on the call of Jesus what we risk when we do not follow So much more than ...
We think it is so distant the judging of others racism, bias, phobias against one another keeping us separated away ...
So simple an act responding to our Creator a child unexpected a son for a nation Named for a purpose ...
Anyone different like Mary before us in the dust at our feet looking up at Jesus An indictment, now as ...
The unity of the Spirit calling to us ever guiding us if we are willing motivated by love to serve ...
What do we fear that keeps us in our seats when we should be persecuted like Jesus our lives in ...
Will our model be the disciples cowering in the boat sitting when Christ called them to come, to walk on ...
What do we risk in this life if we stand in the background if we speak but do not act ...
With what will God bless us if we were truly open if our doors were not locked if our hearts ...
With what will God bless us if we were truly open if our doors were not locked if our hearts ...
Tugging at our hearts lessons of Jesus to take up our cross and to trust in the Lord Welcoming strangers ...
Connecting lives together all one congregation all believers as one one flock of one Shepherd all of us called to ...
We are the other sheep not part of the first flock brought one through Jesus through his gift on the ...
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