And So it had to be (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Because through one man the breach, the break with God sin entering the world so it had to be one ...
Because through one man the breach, the break with God sin entering the world so it had to be one ...
The very first man breaking the command of God man in the garden breaking the very first law Only one ...
Lustful, our carnal nature the corruption of our sexuality focused on the earthly the things of man The garden there ...
Forever banished thrown out of the beautiful garden Eden forever lost, our place in the fall of man Dying to ...
By the choice of Adam by his disobedience his choosing to eat of the fruit all of us are cursed ...
Through Christ alone, fully human and totally divine the word made flesh coming to earth to redeem us of our ...
Not growing smarter gaining an insight becoming adults on a par with God Expelled, out of the garden the bliss ...
The precision, I remember his motions helping me create the car the weight we added Balancing the shape the aerodynamics ...
The shape of the wood changing under my touch turning the block the square becoming a cylinder making a balsa ...
On the plain of the desert after coming from the waters baptized for a purpose beginning his work Standing against ...
In some sense, all of us when we are in the winds exposed, alone with our thought naked on the ...
The journey of our lives just as for the Christ not just on level ground trials in deserts, on the ...
I met evil, coming inside from the bright summer day on the Vineyard, so long ago His eyes full of ...
All of us mindful, or so should we be charitable and gracious more in what we share than the things ...
Talking with the girls answering their urgent questions knowing only in part the truth of segregation Going out, continuing my ...
If we continue, following the world off the cliff, into the abyss oblivion, away from the covenant, the commandments, the ...
insanity, madness, beyond all reason the consumer society on full overload the turning, away from the world lost in the ...
Each of us complicit part of the problem growing an army of shoppers mercenaries versed, well armed and trainer, in ...
The row of toothbrushes their heads, like the Porch of the Maidens that image of their marvel, seen so long ...
Running to court, a quick filing before racing to the office, a swallow of coffee, gathering papers another hearing, another ...
She invoked his story, his memory, his ministry of the pans washing the pots, the pans of the monastery, humble ...
Their days of glory ending, the green pushing out the yellow still full living blooms being driving out, interlopers green ...
A national day of prayer, duly designated, sanctioned to pray for our country, our blessings for our leaders, in these ...
Grace in the accepting, in the conversion, in the repentant heart, seeing the failures, the wrongness of human designs Saying ...
Growing, living, acting out the grace, the faith that lives within us in piety, through study, by action a natural ...
Divine living grace swirling around us, watching us as a father with a child playing in the field Waiting, watching, ...
Like solid water firm under our feet so we are called walking on liquid water as Peter did, to believe, ...
Crossing the street toward home, I gave a quick thank you to the crossing guard. A small voice growing coming ...
Like a human version, a young human version, of the famous jumping frog Calaveras County, or some other locale she ...
Eisenstaedt and Goebbels stark colors, black and white evil captured still life on the page, staring back at all of ...
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