Thankful for the Difference (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Stopping in our worship offering up a praise a thanksgiving for our freedom thankful for the difference what we take ...
Stopping in our worship offering up a praise a thanksgiving for our freedom thankful for the difference what we take ...
Happy to consider the profound difference the freedoms we cherish to pray for their struggle to shake off the yoke ...
Murderer's marauders henchmen of the madman holding on to power by silencing the opposition Stealing the people from their own ...
Willing to crush the people to brutalize the nation to bomb the cities and take them in the night The ...
Sitting down with evil pure oppression willing to crush resistance to silence other voices Sitting down with evil Like Goebbels ...
Sitting down with evil giving lies a stage complicit in their propaganda giving voice to their rage The opiate of ...
The chill of their lies buying time to regroup to fend off the people to abduct them in the night ...
The ghosts of the protests those yearning for freedom those who stood up after prayers going into the streets stealing ...
The protest made silence stealing them in the night removing the courageous from their homes at night Ghosts of the ...
The removal of the martyrs the abductions in the night the protests made silent by the terror in the street ...
Invisible martyrs taken in the night removed from the streets taken from our sight The madman, the strongman holding onto ...
Fear for the innocents wanting to be free under the boot of the tyrant not at liberty What must they ...
Do the martyrs those who have fallen the innocents in the square, the street yearning for their freedom Do they ...
Do they hear their cries steeling them to action do the people hear the cries the cries of the martyrs ...
More than metaphorical The tyrant firing on the people rubber bullets, ammunition tear gas on his people Coming from prayers ...
Firing on the innocents gunning down the protesters coming from the time of prayers into the Square of the Martyrs ...
The despots unthinking following the old patterns firing on the people when no one was looking Something different in this ...
The crushing force the snipers using their weapons firing on the mourners the peaceful in the streets Captive people crying ...
A short-term solution now that the world is watching the winds of change blowing throughout the region The insanity of ...
The frustration fanned revolution coming the tinder on the hot coals the reaction of the tyrants Fanning the flames by ...
In the time of protest the turning of this page the age of despots ending a new day begun They ...
Called like the shepherds bringing our worship to the manger to his bedside in his infancy Called like the fishermen ...
the message from God Words firing in my mind's eye a wealth, words flowing November 3, 2009 (Raymond A. Foss)
A community, brothers set apart living, praying, being in holy conversation supporting, affirming, proclaiming the grace of God Guiding, revealing, ...
Sparks of gold, of silver, splashes of color rising up from the new-fallen snow greeting my lowered head deep in ...
Scattering joy like seeds, this is how I feel, sharing the words these gifts I am given by the Lord ...
His Bill is clasped -- his Eye forsook -- His Feathers wilted low -- The Claws that clung, like lifeless ...
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Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget; For we are the people of England, that ...
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