Unconscionable Cuts (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Hurting our neighbors our sisters and brothers those crying out given short shrift Only a few seconds to plead their ...
Hurting our neighbors our sisters and brothers those crying out given short shrift Only a few seconds to plead their ...
A man, each one of us made of flesh and blood able to feel pain, joy as we walk upon ...
Wrapped in clay emptied of his holiness God descending to earth walking as a man Humble, of the dust temporal, ...
Sometimes on the sidelines not such a central player but Joseph is a true example of a disciple of God ...
Honor is for the humble not those puffed up in pride not those who seek it but those who are ...
Even if we are freed by the blood of the cross how unworthy I am to speak the word of ...
We are called out of our comfort out of the pews, the boats to walk where he calls us leaving ...
With honor, recognition an official position of power sent with letters of introduction from the seat of power to that ...
Innocence at the beginning the couple in the garden walking with almighty God unaware of their nakedness Eating of the ...
Having been forgiven by the blood of the lamb the sacrifice of Christ on the cross we are to forgive, ...
from his body, his rib God making a helper, a champion someone to complete him to get the job done ...
Only in our faith in Christ made right with God sealing the breach the chasm between God and man eternal ...
Humbly we must fall on our knees at the cross aware of our need to truly repent of our sin ...
Not just our actions the sins we can quantify needing to admit our brokenness the sin in our nature our ...
The very first man breaking the command of God man in the garden breaking the very first law Only one ...
Standing, hiding in the garden the sound of the creator fear in their hearts Aware of their nakedness the death ...
Because through one man the breach, the break with God sin entering the world so it had to be 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 ...
If the fruit was not eaten the garden never changed man and God dwelling walking with each other innocent in ...
Biting of the forbidden fruit dying to our God no longer his creation sentient, dying in their wisdom after following ...
Cast out of the garden because we had eaten the fruit broken the first law of God listening to the ...
Needing Christ fully human, utterly divine to restore the connection to undo the harm the breach between God and man ...
Calling this a myth because the word sin was not there their nakedness revealed because they had eaten the fruit ...
In the moment choosing sin, disobedience a state of grace lost forever dying in the garden suddenly aware of their ...
Choosing meekness, the way of Christ Submitting to the will of God not assertive, but meek Calm within the storm ...
Christ, alive, risen the word of love who came to life, to the earth an example, showing us, all of ...
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