A people in a foreign land
resident aliens,
making homes, lives
histories away from their homeland
Living out their days
those of their children
in exile; but placed there
sent there by God
A call to faithfulness
to God, even there,
where they were
resident aliens
in a foreign land
October 12, 2007 9:52pm
Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7
(Raymond A. Foss)
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