On God’s Holy Word (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
in prayer and reflection in meditation and fasting drawing closer to him studying, leaning on God's holy word finding comfort ...
Poems about fasting (31 Poems)
Fasting (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Fasting, self-denial giving up distractions things of this world getting in the way Time freed from things to do's and ...
A Holy Lent – 2 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Changing our routine practicing a holy Lent denying ourselves our sin our focus on the earth Spending with Jesus walking ...
Ash Wednesday (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The start of Lent searching within ourselves on the journey with Christ using our fasting time for the Father in ...
The Community in Lent (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Our disciplines, living out ancient rites of Lent individual calls, gifts our own prayers, fasting but the community in Lent ...
Before We can Celebrate (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Before the rising of our savior the joy of Easter morning coming face to face with the reality of his ...
A Holy Lent (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The words entering into worship prayers from the pulpit that we would observe a holy Lent with disciplines of old ...
So Unlike the Advent Story (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
This season of our faith from Ash Wednesday to Easter the season of reflection, of Lent so unlike the Advent ...
Different than the New Year’s Resolutions (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
The prayerful things, fasting what we give up for Lent different than the New Year's resolutions lying in the dust, ...
His Face Set on Jerusalem (2) (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The shift in the story the climax fast approaching his face set on Jerusalem his time coming, to fulfill, complete, ...
Preparing for Easter (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In fasting, in praying in the mark of the ashes preparing for Easter in penitent submission No longer the babe ...
What He Could Have Done (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The words of the devil, taunting the Christ-child alone in the desert daring him to act What he could have ...
Closer to Christ (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Close to our savior, our brother feeling the yoke, the weight he carried the cross he bore, for me, for ...
Closer to the Cross (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
These days, these times, more focused, more centered, fasting, praying, thinking about You about the path you walked, in that ...
Drawn to New Life (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Study, prayers, fasting growth through study, meditation through some sacrifice, some meager change some discipline, holy, drawing us closer to ...
Drawn to the Cross (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Closer, ever closer, drawn to the cross, to the foot of the cross our savior's burden his suffering, his sacrifice ...
In the Days of Darkness (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Like the flash of light, God was in the days of darkness, the prayer and fasting in his cell in ...
Cheerful Piety (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Quiet, reverent, cheerful piety living happily in relationship in direct connection with God Praying, fasting, giving, communing with God, not ...
A New Adam (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
It these tests, these trials, these temptations in the wilderness after fasting those forty days Jesus began, started, the reconciliation ...
Through the Motions (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Tithing, fasting, praying in the temple so were the steps of the sinner before the altar, the throne of God; ...
The Devil In Hell (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
Feronde (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
Initial Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Religio Laici (John Dryden Poem)
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
We, The Living (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
We, the living, buried deep in selfish grief strive to comprehend the passing of your hour, minds are numbed, aghast ...
Having each of you as friends (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
For more than 40 years we've been good friends, since 1963 in fact, from college where we met (and managed ...
Antichrist, or the Reunion of Christendom: An Ode (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Are they clinging to their crosses, F. E. Smith, Where the Breton boat-fleet tosses, Are they, Smith? Do they, fasting, ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
Little Birds (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Little Birds are dining Warily and well, Hid in mossy cell: Hid, I say, by waiters Gorgeous in their gaiters ...