The Pursuit of Blessedness (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the words of Christ the kernel of our hope what we believe seeking happiness the pursuit of blessedness unfettered ...
In the words of Christ the kernel of our hope what we believe seeking happiness the pursuit of blessedness unfettered ...
To standing in storm to cry out in the wilderness to preach the love of Christ whether or not they ...
We are called out of our comfort out of the pews, the boats to walk where he calls us leaving ...
The deliberate inversion of the standard order whom Christ defined as blessed, happy cursed, shunned now in society Shocking us ...
The earth not to the powerful not to the mighty, the strong but to the meek not to the proud ...
God gives words to the prophets to those who will not be silent who would call out for justice who ...
God's offering of mercy in judgment in the comforting presence of our savior offered not to the powerful not to ...
To stand in the presence of God to see his face, face to face, to enter into his courts at ...
God's word, given by the son in a land under the rule a captured nation under the powerful empire not ...
Rereading his message on this day important to our land the major sermon the world as God would see it ...
Even today, as we celebrate the independence of our nation our people separated freed of the oppression tyranny of another ...
Reading these words of Christ preaching from the mountain closer to God revealing his message of what it is to ...
Christ speaking across the ages to each of us on blessedness in the eyes of God Not to the full ...
God's comfort, his assurance the loving hands of God blessed are those would mourn who sorrow in their soul God ...
In a moment of reflection may we stop on Independence Day to think of our freedoms in a totally new ...
In the words of Christ in his sermon on that mount telling us how to live guided in our freedom ...
Christ's word and the Spirit guiding our steps here living in our freedom in the way that God would want ...
Focused on our nation as we do on this day needing to be mindful of the savior's way He spoke ...
The sense of happiness of joy in our freedom revisited, recast in these words of Christ Needing to remember what ...
Our calling, as a people anointed for a calling in the words of our independence something of these words of ...
Not in the country where we live not in true independence walking on our own adrift in the world Our ...
Remembering his teachings the lesson of our savior his message for living for the way we should walk as believers, ...
There on the mountain Christ coming to rest the disciples coming to him sitting on the lawn outside, under the ...
Trying, without real success, explaining the Walk to Emmaus what it has meant to me, the love I felt, the ...
You mean so much to each one of us, touching our lives on so many levels, in so many ways, ...
Like stars, he made the allusion, the metaphor of ideals that are beyond our grasp, eternally out of our reach, ...
Iterative, coding conventions Six month of our lives Spent casting and recasting The structure of the new environment To bring ...
I hadn't had the 'flu in ages, avoided all those awful places fraught of gritty eyes and splitting heads, patrons ...
For every tiny town or place God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish face And see them ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
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