Into Deeper Waters (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
From the shallows by the shore reaching the people with his words Out, into deeper waters the fishermen casting their ...
From the shallows by the shore reaching the people with his words Out, into deeper waters the fishermen casting their ...
A Word of hope to change our history the world transformed what happened on that day The first disciples on ...
Though I have been angry selfish, rejecting my God, going the way of the world He has never left me ...
Even in his fading memory serving the church that he loves The dishes, the wiring the work of his hands ...
Lord, never quit on me though I am broken and weak Lift me up on my feet your presence is ...
Christ, God, love came into the world not as a king upon his throne As a baby in the humble ...
God descended from heaven onto this mortal plane revealed as an infant to suffer and die in pain But more ...
Not like Isaiah in the throne room of God he comes to us here below God found in unlikely places ...
when we are not looking not paying attention, when we are blind not seeking the Lord that is when God ...
In the season, Epiphany ever seeking trying to find God the Christ everywhere we go Looking for the babe the ...
Living in Epiphany time on this earth not just in one season worshipping our savior's birth Seeking the Christ our ...
Seeking the face of God his walking next to me feeling his presence beside before me, on this mortal trail ...
In referencing the death of the king anchoring his moment, epiphany when he saw the Lord, seated on his throne ...
Speaking directly, assertively the ancient words of Isaiah claiming the coming of the prophecy all of this fulfilled The example ...
Forced to open their minds, to accept the possibility of change The men of Nazareth, sitting in their synagogue stunned ...
Before our birth, when we enter the world all of our days even when we are unaware Our loving father, ...
Even in the mirror dimly seeing only in part comfort in the rest of the text in the life of ...
Within the rock, the fortress of the Lord stillness, comfort all my parts restored my mind, my spirit lifted up ...
From the Lord, my rock that place of strength, that reserve, on which I can trust Able, with him alone, ...
even when we are wet sitting in the boat the winds, the waves crashing Christ calling us to the water ...
Thinking of the walls the stones we use within these walls individual cities fortresses of stone walled off from our ...
A people separated each one of us alone believing in ourselves more than in our togetherness Forgetting the words of ...
Our lives alone, apart separately live out within these walls of stone no others can get in The psalm, the ...
A recurring tugging thoughts not willing to be stilled a persistent dream for many years urging me to let go ...
A sense of what is right what I simply must do faithful to my gifts from God words to share ...
How to describe my sense of call to share words come to my mind my soul's own cry from deep ...
The lessons of scripture sometimes a bit confusing the teaching in community making the word plain The congregation, the small ...
The living word the scriptures we cherish joyful in reading in coming to know more Learning the ancient words the ...
Into the word diving, living waters revealed, understanding the reading the teaching in the ancient words how we each must ...
Standing up for the reading of the word Bowing down to worship our God A lesson from the people back ...
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