Responding to the Spring (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Our nation must be committed speaking out in freedom the aspirations of the people responding to the spring the Arab ...
Our nation must be committed speaking out in freedom the aspirations of the people responding to the spring the Arab ...
Blind to who he was those who should know blind to the man standing before them the Son of the ...
Drops of blood like the pressed olives heavy, falling Gethsemane wet with the sweat the anguish the pain of Christ ...
The hired hands the thief on the cross those who could not see mocking our king the living God the ...
Like them so scared unwilling to stand up to stand out to hold fast to his name When we doubt ...
We run away just like them denying our King, our God too afraid to stand in the breach to trust ...
The hour has come the betrayer is at hand the journey has begun the descent to torture and death and ...
A concerted act of will the last candle burning needing to be extinguished yet laden with meaning rich, in remembrance ...
The world closing in gathered in silence in the gathering shadows we begin The day of his dying his sacrifice ...
unlike the others he had done no wrong faithful to God's calling to his law There on the cross the ...
The accusation foreshadowing foretelling betrayal So you say said the master to the statement of the denial of Judas sealing ...
Oh in this morning waking, knowing the good Lord has kept me wrapped in his loving arms Just where I ...
Make me aware, oh Lord of you right by my side I know you are already here needing to sense ...
The salt of my walk the clay of my witness fill me with oil that I may be light A ...
Something to hold onto in the words of Christ the connection of the law guided by God's love the black-letter ...
Another way to see this our walk upon the earth the fulfillment of the law in the person of the ...
At the heart of the lessons the sermon on the mount the words of our savior savored in our mouths ...
Not shunning the scripture the words of the law abiding in God's mercy in the arms of his love Abiding ...
Something to remember as we go about our day the teaching of our master on the hillside that day The ...
To understand love to comprehend His commandments the connection of the two bonded, in union neither are separate as the ...
House to house heart to heart one beating heart turned to God Informed by love following his law speaking with ...
Weeping for these people our neighbors in the streets crying for the people dying for their freedoms standing before tyrants ...
How we live our walk in this life understanding Christ what he came to give To bring love down to ...
The blood of the people to be spilt by the tyrant raining down from heaven onto the earth Unwilling to ...
Not something political whether or not convenience needing to speak out now against the rogue, the madman Speak, out of ...
The world watching needing to speak to act in justice to protect the meek Madness on the stage personified in ...
He could have climbed down spared himself the anguish the feeling of abandonment the complete desolation We need to remember ...
From the depth of our soul guided by God turning over our lives into his loving hands Turning to him ...
Not in the past when he walked the earth feeling him with us in this walk of life Loving as ...
No longer right to use polite speech time to deny the tyrant more minutes on stage Speaking more plainly without ...
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