The Image of a Journey (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
So many of the stories, the deep lessons of scripture so much a part of the human condition an image ...
So many of the stories, the deep lessons of scripture so much a part of the human condition an image ...
Not three kings, not royalty men of faith, of science, scholars students of the ancient texts able to read the ...
Gold, frankincense, myrrh gifts given for a new king traveling, a star January 3, 2009 Matthew 2:1-12 (Raymond A. Foss)
Unlike the shepherds, on a nearby hillside, watching their sheep. Not called by a choir of angels, a chorus of ...
The life, the fulfillment, the prophecy of old his life, his ministry, his burial in the tomb woven into the ...
We are traveling, this Epiphany season following the star, his bright star traveling, journeying, like the Magi the astrologers, the ...
Walking, tracing, the steps of the Magi each of us, alone, traveling the way they journeyed sights set on his ...
We are called, each one to follow that star that star, burning bright from Bethlehem, from his birth, his manger ...
Traveling, to that city, traveling far guided by your light, by your nativity star finding you in the manger bed ...
We must return, to Nazareth, to Bethlehem to the river, the Jordan to the time of the Christ, with us ...
Mary and Joseph's journey, so much more, much more than traveling from Nazareth to Bethlehem, the Temple the holy city ...
Each of them, on a journey moving beyond comfort seeking, traveling, more than miles traversing culture, tradition, the law by ...
While they were yet traveling by his vision sent A vision of heaven a new earth, a new law opening ...
For some reason, some greater purpose people walk into our lives for a moment, a season, for our lives sharing ...
a belief, a religion, defined in terms of journey in the path they were on, following a movement, following the ...
He came, first, to feed the children to prove the scriptures, fulfill the prophets to bring the chosen people, back ...
Traveling this road a collection of individuals walking the same steps but our own path Starting at different points in ...
Little baubles, trinkets, t-shirts, something for my girls, for my baby. Mementos, toys, things Little gifts for them from the ...
He was our cantor, modeling the responsive lines to his homily on faith. Echoing, joining him, in remembering the mantra ...
Fragrant oil, filled the room, at its pouring spilling out, expensive and rare, falling on the feet the dusty feet, ...
Not, exactly, green: closer to bronze preserved in kind brine, something retrieved from a Greco-Roman wreck, patinated and oddly muscular. ...
Baudelaire considers you his brother, and Fielding calls out to you every few paragraphs as if to make sure you ...
Tomorrow's Thursday again, swept with the days' meandering flow: this, that, and the week goes, hearing time splash through cracks. ...
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
THE PUDDING MASTER OF STANLEY BASIN Tree, snow and rock beginnings, the mountain in back of the lake promised us ...
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
As if you actually died in that dream and woke up dead. Shadows of untangling vines tumble toward the ceiling. ...
What name do I have for you? Certainly there is not name for you In the sense that the stars ...
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