In the Face of Each Stranger (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The face of the Christ our risen savior who gives us life when we die with him who raises us ...
The face of the Christ our risen savior who gives us life when we die with him who raises us ...
As a people as Christians falling far short of our calling not that this is surprising as we remain human ...
Needing to begin again as we are losing a generation shutting the door to them without our conscious thinking unable ...
Maybe to understand our failing to be truly faithful the harsh judgment that so many have made that we are ...
Just as in his words how we should walk in life caring for our neighbor bearing his burdens offering them ...
Seeing Jesus on the face of each stranger each person we meet in the image of God How would we ...
Have you ever heard the comment noticed the body language someone different maybe not in "church" attire the eyes saying, ...
So easy, to focus on differences how we are not alike on the outside alone forgetting how we all are ...
Hidden rules secret handshakes whether we say "debts" or "trespasses", how we do this or that whether you may participate ...
So much of the failing the estrangement from the church the institutions of our faith because it is easier to ...
In no way separated our division by right given by the creator the freedom of all mankind on earth Coming ...
In coming to our savior in accepting Christ entering into our trembling hearts becoming one with him the spirit indwelling ...
The colors of our country how proudly they wave so much sacrifice the price to this day Our nation's ideals ...
Complete abandon unbridled joy the collie running as fast as its legs would go oblivious to the world around people ...
Running to court, a quick filing before racing to the office, a swallow of coffee, gathering papers another hearing, another ...
From our vantage, our perspective, our faith in God, our belief in the lessons of Christ his teachings to love, ...
Radical words, more than all the rest, that sermon on the hill, the mount, sharing with us, even to this ...
And so was the transference, the owning the claiming of the death of the innocent passed from the denial of ...
How aptly named, is discovery, the information the case of the Division Page after page, a catalog of surprises, discoveries ...
Paneled walls, formal distances, raised dais bifurcated space, Hatfields and McCoys, bride and groom Peculiar pews, wide oak masculine pews, ...
Like an army general on parade reviewing the troops in the convoy tooling down the highway into battle I drove ...
Exert thy Voice, sweet Harbinger of Spring! This Moment is thy Time to sing, This Moment I attend to Praise, ...
I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to ...
Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw-- For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law. He's ...
While it is alive Until Death touches it While it and I lap one Air Dwell in one Blood Under ...
Not so the infinite Relations -- Below Division is Adhesion's forfeit -- On High Affliction but a Speculation -- And ...
They had not seen, for ages, such beautiful gifts in Delphi as these that had been sent by the two ...
my secrets appear on your window when you fog the division with your own warm breath; you lost yourself in ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
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