Starting a New Thing (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Needing to begin again as we are losing a generation shutting the door to them without our conscious thinking unable ...
Needing to begin again as we are losing a generation shutting the door to them without our conscious thinking unable ...
So easy, to focus on differences how we are not alike on the outside alone forgetting how we all are ...
So much of the failing the estrangement from the church the institutions of our faith because it is easier to ...
Like masks of clay only the differences between us false grounds to claim another unworthy when we all carry our ...
In our new creations wearing the fabric of Christ the differences melting away all of us children of God As ...
We need the words the scripture to remind us Whatever our differences the things that divide us All like us ...
We look in the mirror in the face of our neighbor for similarities, kinship noting differences that which sets us ...
Seeing our family in our neighbors in all of God's children sons and daughters of the King each one of ...
We are called out of the sacrifice of Christ the grace of the creator to accept each other to love ...
As faithful disciples, as people of faith, a Christian community called, charged to see others, not with society's eyes With ...
With the eyes of God seeing the world seeing the children the sons and daughters the children of the King ...
A reminder in the message in hearing our differences but the similarities the painful truth too that each religion each ...
One God, one path, one savior all of us equal, all receiving the message all filled by the same spirit, ...
Tomorrow, Election Day we are given anew, a chance to decide to choose our leaders, an opportunity to give voice ...
An outsider, within his own home falling to his knees, falling at Peter's feet a revelation of his own doubts ...
divisions, Jew and Gentile no more, barriers phantoms alone torn down, ripped, removed you our savior coming to earth, humble, ...
Barriers, limits, chaff, to be burned away, cast off artificial walls, failing to forgive, failing to love, failing to see ...
Gossamer thin, no weight, substance illusory walls, within our minds puffed up differences, most skin deep Setting us apart, keeping ...
our differences, so minor, like illusionary walls, stage effects merely, unreal, phantoms, keeping us apart nothing of God in these ...
Walls broken down, doors opened history, law, traditions, rules broken throughout the text, change station, rank, divisions ignored sharing his ...
Peter's dream, by this dream he learned, became to understand, in time, what is important to the Lord not the ...
Trying, without real success, explaining the Walk to Emmaus what it has meant to me, the love I felt, the ...
The pastor, speaking in parables, and more directly to the congregation itself to brothers and sisters of the same cloth, ...
Brothers killing brothers, fighting brothers, hating each other for minor things, petty differences selfish desires, cheap greed, anger, position, power ...
Anointing his head, his feet, oil for royalty for burial So much meaning in the layers, the differences the telling ...
A traditional mother, dressed in native garb waiting for her son, living in another world, one more familiar to him, ...
Lockwood Analogies, differences Learning how to see One from the other Scraps of case law Grounds for dismissal Basis for ...
A living Ansel Adams tableau white birches stretching heavenward over a winter scene of white on white A monochromatic world ...
They came in masted wooden ships across an unindentured sea and cast their lot in ocean swells to chance at ...
As a child I played in the same frosty fields barefoot as my no lesser loved classmates, whom we challenged ...
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