A Righteous Branch (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A new shoot was to spring up out of the branch of Jesse, the stump down in the ground hidden ...
A new shoot was to spring up out of the branch of Jesse, the stump down in the ground hidden ...
She longed for a quiet place a little solitary space to focus her thoughts as she ought to set down ...
Moses, on the mountain, petitioning God, once more to spare the people, the ones He saved who are turning away ...
Hope came, in the birth of the Son to bring hope to the people, waiting for so long for the ...
How much different, how oh so very different would world history, human history have been, if only the chosen had ...
Indigo is the color of creation heavens, the formless void indigo is for the heavens, a color of creation Blue ...
Oh change your ways you dead, dying tree turn from your thoughts law alone, hear, heed the new soil, the ...
The bread and the juice for the faithful, for his supper, the elements of the sacrament common bread, common grape ...
If you would say yes to my plea, my prayer, on bended knee I would marry you again, joyfully for ...
Two years ago today the day we wed on the stone bridge in the park in the snow A handful ...
Weekly payments, cash payments for the work performed, day by day helping them and their family, do what is right, ...
We are going to ask the congregation to give to give a little more for the missions we hold dear, ...
A white paper plate, a hole roughly cut out of the middle, with a few haphazardly placed pom poms, in ...
A people waiting, hoping, believing in their covenant with God with the many blessings given by God by the hope ...
At 1:00 in the morning on a moonlit, starlit night in northern Maine, in the Allagash Wilderness silent strangers, worked ...
Dear God, I give you thanks for this day, for the days of my life so far and all the ...
Starting my days in the word, studying the lessons for me, the words there for me to see to learn ...
In my line, my blood, there pulses, course through my veins the blood of those hardy souls, the first Pilgrims, ...
Praying in the wilderness, a metaphor for the prayers of the people chosen by God, the children of Abraham, of ...
A soliloquy on the meaning, the placement the position of the Book of Ruth, a monologue on the transition, the ...
A question, an important question Framed and pregnant in my mind had to wait a little longer for its asking ...
Naomi, Boaz, and Ruth Three who together give us a lesson, a teaching, an example of loyalty and goodness, of ...
She needed to be protected, provided for, to provide for Naomi, to be the best example of the converted; how ...
We all sin, we all fall short, we all need grace grace boundless and unending, grace to redeem to bring ...
They were reaping the breach, the wrong they did their God The breach the worship, the communion with other Gods, ...
Reaping the Whirlwind, the story of man from the fall of Adam, the revolt in Cain and Abel, the bickering ...
Words, words that can hurt words of wisdom, of healing, of guidance, to live our lives but The Word, now ...
Metaphors, images, concepts, pictures thoughts welled up spilled over washed over me from her words his words From the pulpit, ...
An urgent call a race down the dark stairs a flicker of color as I ran outside an arc, His ...
A shepherd's hook stood in the corner of the empty office a reminder of the role the reason for this ...
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