We offer ourselves (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
As did the widow offering her two coins a metaphor for her true offering we offer ourselves, our lives turning ...
Raymond A. Foss Poems on Metaphor & Analogy (24 Poems)
climbing the holy mountain (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
in some ways a metaphor for some reality climbing the holy mountain seeking our king Wandering in this life so ...
Steadfast in Faith (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The journey of planting of the growing garden a wonderful metaphor, an image for the sharing of love the message ...
Letting God Drive (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The metaphor of the yoke hard to comprehend even to conform our steps to the path of Christ Maybe in ...
The Widow’s Faith (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
The coins, but a metaphor so small compared to the other offerings but so huge, in metaphor giving all she ...
Little Children (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Is it their modern sense of innocence little children, or their rank disposable, at the bottom in either case, whatever ...
I Am the Sacrifice (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
He said, "I am the Bread, the bread that gives life." the metaphor, he is the way the bridge between ...
From the Jordan (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
From the Sea, Galilee, From the Jordan the waters into which Christ fell dying to his life, to the stain ...
A Mustard Seed Planted (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Small, little seeds, seeds planted a mustard seed, planted with care how it will grow what fruits it will bear ...
Never Ordained (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A lesson in the metaphor the body, the work, the worth of each member, lay and clergy equal in ministry, ...
A Mustard Seed – haiku (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
metaphor for faith a depth of trust quantified enabling action January 19, 2008 (Raymond A. Foss)
Deep in the Woods (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The words of the doctor, he is, we are, "still deep in the woods" A long way from the safety ...
A Hammer Blow to the Ice (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Maybe the metaphor shouldn't be pebbles thrown into the pond; maybe the more apt analogy the hope, and the trepidation ...
Pruning Time (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Seasons of life, of the church of nature, metaphor and allegory parable and tale, woven with wisdom with truth, for ...
Sons of Abraham (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Ishmael, oh Ishmael set down the rock Isaac, oh Isaac drop your sword. For as you do, so do your ...
A Mighty Seed (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Hidden in the small kernel, the collection of a few cells, the whole of a tree, a mighty shrub, a ...
Peter was Peter (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A name, oh what a name his name to carry, into the world into the sanctuary, to the pulpit Is ...
Praying in the Wilderness (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Praying in the wilderness, a metaphor for the prayers of the people chosen by God, the children of Abraham, of ...
The Suffering of a Righteous Man (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
May it take no more suffering of a righteous man for us to see the error of the ways, the ...
Our Highest Ideal (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Like stars, he made the allusion, the metaphor of ideals that are beyond our grasp, eternally out of our reach, ...
Passim (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The Bible, the ultimate frequently cited authority, the basis for the arguments over and over again. A legal term of ...
Kneading the Bread (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The bread of life a metaphor for the living Son but think of the elements the wheat, the leavening, water ...
Dreams (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Slide, fall into the realm the inky stillness after restless days Wake, fitfully Scraps of memory or Technicolor show Prescience ...
Frozen Image – v4 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Down the path Away from the road, Bustle of the highway In the inner quiet Cold of winter Emptiness, sadness, ...