Manger (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
At the beginning of his life a humble couple, young, unsure travelers, following the law going to his town, their ...
Poems about vessels (31 Poems)
Right Side Up (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The story of Christmas trying to turn the world right side up, to turn from the power of might to ...
You are the light of the world (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
"You are the light of the world." Such a statement, a calling God speaking to man we are the light ...
Treasure in Clay Jars (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Placed in clay pots, misshapen, chipped, flawed God's love, his grace, his gifts placed within clay jars, treasure Transforming us, ...
Empty (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Striving, hungering, longing empty, thirsting after righteousness they were filled by the spirit, holy, pure on a journey, serving the ...
Imperfect People (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The bible's story imperfect people, able, by God's grace, to do extraordinary things acts of love, by faith alone, grace ...
Holy Failures (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Over and over in the holy word, holy failures, people failing in human eyes, became leaders, prophets, kings, saving, guiding, ...
Ben was mistaken (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In a land of thinkers, of revolutionaries breaking free of an empire, needing their wits their guile, to hide behind ...
Grace is for Others (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Through faith is grace given; but not as an end, a thing given for us Grace is for others, we ...
Grace through Us (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Grace is an experience imparted through us, recognized all around, in the sunset, in a loving touch, in the rain, ...
Unlikely Voices (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A stutterer, an adulterer, former enemies, unclean people a timid man, a youngest son a haggard man, standing in a ...
Holding His Love (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The potter molding us vessels for his message his love imprinted on us marking us as his own as he ...
Something Beautiful (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
From the inert, cold wet clay of our lives something beautiful can rise formed by loving hands the creator, the ...
An Unseen Hand, an Unheard Whisper (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Pushed forward, that's how she put it, our lives for God's special purpose pushed forward by an unseen hand, an ...
Into the World (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We are called, given our marching orders to leave our lives behind, to go into the world sharing the message ...
Merely Gloves (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The spirit the actor, we the vessels the skin of our flesh, the gloves of the spirit touching lives, changing ...
Give God Our Hearts (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We are to give God our hearts, to live in harmony with the Father, the creator, our Brother, His Son ...
Vessels of God (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
They were each vessels of God human means for the will of God agents for all time of the work ...
Into the Potter’s House (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
Walking into the house of the skilled potter, the maker of vessels for the stuff of life for water and ...
Graves of New Orleans (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
There is something rare something grand something right about the graves of New Orleans not hidden flat stones carved names ...
The Old Man’s Calendar (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
On The Hurricane (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
Glass (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
O Man! what Inspiration was thy Guide, Who taught thee Light and Air thus to divide; To let in all ...
The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Of Naishapur (Edward Fitzgerald Poem)
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
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 ...
Sea-Gulls of Manhattan (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Children of the elemental mother, Born upon some lonely island shore Where the wrinkled ripples run and whisper, Where the ...
In Church (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
I love the church: its labara, its silver vessels, its candleholders, the lights, the ikons, the pulpit. Whenever I go ...
Narva and Mored (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
Recite the loves of Narva and Mored The priest of Chalma's triple idol said. High from the ground the youthful ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...