Authentic Priority (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Using our values guided by our beliefs focused on our ideals the treasure that we keep Hearing that small voice ...
Using our values guided by our beliefs focused on our ideals the treasure that we keep Hearing that small voice ...
our priorities our passions that which has first rank gives our lives purpose giving us strength we must choose them ...
like the keel of a ship our priorities in like choosing from all others the direction we take we are ...
We can be masters choosing our own path for good or for evil we have free will We can be ...
Being the wave the movement, with power guided by our priorities the center of our lives We can lead given ...
not floating on the waves driven by the winds a captive of circumstance at nature's whim We can choose what ...
Not needing to touch him to delay him from his purpose wanting merely to touch the fabric of the fringe ...
Nothing showy drawing attention demanding Christ to focus on her Simple faith merely touching the fringe of his cloak healing ...
Revealing himself in the words of scripture speaking directly to us across the sands of time All of the promises ...
She came from the crowd with them to see Jesus wanting to be near him to touch his cloak in ...
Striking the master the scattered sheep the rock running, denying lost in the night Redeemed in Christ's mercy on this ...
The foundation, the rock crumbling in sorrow denying Christ, his Master crying in the street Bitter in his rebellion denying ...
How will we respond to the invitation of Christ how do we respond to the call of the one our ...
So much of the power the strength in witness of that which we do not want that which he doesn't ...
If we are comfortable so like the rich man how can we follow to be disciples of Christ if we ...
Christ took the cup, the cross we take the cup, the cross sharing our story, the choice to submit to ...
In the likeness of Christ serving our neighbors his witnesses here to the depths of his love May 10, 2011 ...
Perfecting us, holy by the indwelling Spirit our likeness changing utterly transformed in the image of God out into the ...
One man's death though somewhat cathartic yet bringing the pain the loss back to the forefront One man's death hardly ...
Easy with a demon putting a face on evil calling out bin Laden the leader of al Qaeda But now ...
A sense of vindication of closure for the loss not joy in the killing in the taking of a life ...
A quiet resolve a sense of some closure; but the pain still there our innocence gone Without cheering no joy ...
Even the death of evil taken by his choosing refusing to submit to stand in the dock of justice Saddened ...
Do we mourn even for the death of evil of a person bent on our destruction How can we be ...
The requited anger the focus of our rage bin Laden gone, buried in the water in a watery grave A ...
Victory over evil in the cries of war the terrorist brought down but may we not gloat Not like the ...
The moment of this time to forgive bin Laden the one we had so hated gunned down, now dead The ...
Christ not abandoning us God always with us fulfilling his promise answering our prayers We must not give up we ...
The lamb, the Paschal Lamb the blood of the lamb through the blood that flowed the altar of the cross ...
Through the blood of the lamb his body, his all through the blood that flowed down from Calvary's cross We ...
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