Of the Earth (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Of the earth bound with the clay nothing special of the everyday We each can be light not just the ...
Of the earth bound with the clay nothing special of the everyday We each can be light not just the ...
Do the people of the world those who are yet strangers see the face of Christ when they look upon ...
No gifts like the Magi not royalty no gold, no spices no fragrant perfume Offering our hands the work to ...
Do we see the rough hands of the fishermen when we look at our hands do we see the scars ...
Do others see love when they look upon us do they see our Savior in the way that we live ...
When we look at our hands do we see the scars of the nails the sacrifice of Christ Do we ...
Watching the fishermen the ones who followed who sought the Messiah who followed the Christ Leaving John, their nets, working ...
Hands that are given offered unto God holy witness to the love in the word Hands that lifted orphans gave ...
The hands of the shepherd the hands of the savior hands of the sacrifice dying for us The hands of ...
Leaving their nets the fish on the shore their families, their homes their lives to that day Going with Jesus ...
Feeling his touch the roughness of his hands the scars from the nails where he was crucified the touch of ...
We think of the fishermen the first disciples their hands doing the work of the church Each of them chosen ...
Hands of the carpenter the hands of Joseph the father of Jesus raising our Savior as his own son Teaching ...
Not to the elite not those in power Christ coming first to those on the margin Dirty shepherds, astrologers from ...
With Herod, the elite, all of Jerusalem troubled by the coming of the Magi looking for the Messiah The coming ...
To understand his present the future he hoped for needing to remember where he had come from before An elite, ...
Not a member of the elite never sitting, studying in the Temple working, with his calloused hands the nets, the ...
With power, to a specific audience a lesson for the elite spoken with authority a stern lesson from a leader ...
A hard question, in the words of the epistle the brother of Christ speaking to the elite in the temple ...
Oh if Murphy had been right, the story would have ended oh so differently He was right, the world was ...
The message is unknown; unimportant He spoke with authority. Now that was the thing The real message in the Word ...
The message is unknown; unimportant He spoke with authority. Now that was the thing The real message in the Word ...
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
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