Putting a Face on Evil (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Easy with a demon putting a face on evil calling out bin Laden the leader of al Qaeda But now ...
Easy with a demon putting a face on evil calling out bin Laden the leader of al Qaeda But now ...
What will be the consequence what will be remembered of this day in history the head of the snake the ...
The miracle they demanded as he had promised the leaders who would not see standing before the ripped curtain He ...
Speaking from their hearts against cruel choices petitioning for redress before the leaders praying for justice assistance from their neighbors ...
Willing to crush the people to brutalize the nation to bomb the cities and take them in the night The ...
Sitting down with evil giving lies a stage complicit in their propaganda giving voice to their rage The opiate of ...
Shout to the heavens call on our leaders to seek their freedom standing by their side Pray for the people ...
That the will of God would be seen in the transformation the hopes of the people that the rulers, the ...
When we doubt our call our importance to God's purpose remember the first disciples how they are so much like ...
And they worshipped him the Magi, the shepherd those who came before him the Christ with us If only more, ...
All of us welcome at the feet of Jesus all of us called to come before God The example of ...
Not the best dressed, not the leaders the people in wealth or power Christ came first to the outcasts the ...
Though the Magi would come inflated to be kings the humble birth of Jesus witnesses by lesser beings The animals ...
In the scripture, the telling of the Christ story from his coming to his rising in glory Would we have ...
The people afraid along with the leaders their power at risk if he was the Christ They didn't want to ...
The failings of the leaders the people of the Word straying from His Law the covenants of His Love Christ ...
Hope like no other, the healing of our Savior, descending from the heavens to heal our brokenness But we couldn't ...
Ancient words of prophecy foretelling his birth the lowly virgin the town where he lay The village of his heritage ...
Would we be so different if the advent was now if we had been waiting for a Messiah of power ...
Causing us to focus to remember the Christ-child leading us into worship the liturgical year The panic of advent not ...
So many of the powerful the leaders of the people unable to believe this was the Christ the babe, the ...
Like so many the people of the book serve where we are ever faithful to God In the leadership even ...
God taking ownership the cost of His judgment speaking to the leaders in exile where He had put them hope ...
How their feet must have been heaven on the Emmaus Road leading them from Jerusalem taking them back to their ...
The skin of the lake sliced not quite silently the fiberglass keel cutting the waves yet almost still after midnight ...
The new things happening a change in the way of church authentic to the calling not guided by the leaders ...
Christ's grace poured out forgiveness, healing as a gift from him to those who believed Not stopped by the crowd ...
The paralyzed man laying on the mat lowered through the ceiling into the hands of strangers into the crowd carried ...
Each of us given gifts for the kingdom special talents to lift the church up Each of us called to ...
Each of us uniquely as given by the spirit gifts for the work building up the church of God Called ...
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