The Slate Wiped Clean (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
All of history the rules of this earth changed forever the slate wiped clean A new heaven and earth like ...
All of history the rules of this earth changed forever the slate wiped clean A new heaven and earth like ...
Like a cloud surrounding us descended from heaven the grace of our Lord waiting for us to turn to him ...
Two brothers each of them lost in their own way estranged from the father carrying their own sin Sin heavy ...
Parallels in the stories the king and the leaders two ends of Christ's life each corrupted by their power And ...
Like the cost last at home the story of the older brother never leaving home but lost nonetheless Like the ...
For fear, and the love of power the lamb led to the slaughter the judgment upon his head in the ...
In this journey the Lenten vigil following, walking with Christ sharing the words the loving scripture finding our brother along ...
Not as adults, fully aware our true state far below him merely human compared with our sovereign God Forgiven as ...
The weight we carried our sin within us walking the way of the world estranged from our God Changing our ...
The words speaking the message deep within us listening to our guilt God speaking to us Changing our path turning ...
My sin, my history bottled up within me a cancer growing eating at my soul A weight inside I carried ...
Coming to God unburdening our hearts repenting, turning giving over our sin leaving it all at the foot of the ...
In our repenting our confession to God in the privacy of our hearts repenting of our sin Our sin taken ...
Though a sinner changed, made happy in confessing, his sins removed David, a man of God, redeemed, reclaimed by our ...
History forever changed by the choices he made that day the upper room, the garden, before the Sanhedrin, his trial ...
There in the garden leaving his disciples going farther praying alone to God What a decision Christ would make there ...
Into the soil of our doubts sowing seeds of deception in patterns of behavior in the shifting sands of numbers ...
The leader, the prophet telling their story as if to their elders remembering a shared memory telling their story in ...
In the moment choosing sin, disobedience a state of grace lost forever dying in the garden suddenly aware of their ...
The swan boats motionless the pond turning to a mud flat the flowers, tulips shimmering in yellows, oranges, and reds ...
Those who would become disciples tired, dirty, after a night, fruitless toil meeting Jesus on the shore a crowd close ...
Not like the scribes, the Pharisees, speaking with power, with authority not able to stay, to preach in his hometown ...
The verse of scripture depending how you count them something important precisely centered in the holy word "It is better ...
In referencing the death of the king anchoring his moment, epiphany when he saw the Lord, seated on his throne ...
The bible, the stories all of the teachings boiled down to love at the center, the heart, of all of ...
All of life, creation, animals, birds, other than those who live in the sea sealed in, the door closed by ...
Beyond words, any expression God's love, in the creation the precision, the ordered world faithfulness to man, even when we ...
the strings of stars white lights shining resting on the branches, the needles illuminating the crosses, the lights on the ...
Understanding love, true love, in its nature without condition nothing in the way no matter the hurt, the history no ...
Changing our course, our lives moving up stream against the grain counter to the lesions of this life focusing on ...
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