Where once they were brown
his new-grown beard
becoming gray,
growing into his role
elder leader, shepherd
of a growing, aging flock
September 5, 2008
written at the Agape Café coffeehouse
Wesley United Methodist Church
(one of 24 written there that night)
(Raymond A. Foss)
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