Putting on Meekness (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Choosing meekness, the way of Christ Submitting to the will of God not assertive, but meek Calm within the storm ...
Choosing meekness, the way of Christ Submitting to the will of God not assertive, but meek Calm within the storm ...
At the tip of his lips ready to use them the smooth stones of the wadi carried in his mind ...
Trying to imagine even with the spirit living in the desert for forty days without food In that state, hunger ...
Not like the scribes, the Pharisees, speaking with power, with authority not able to stay, to preach in his hometown ...
Standing with the crowd on the beach, the Sea of Galilee under the bright sun listening to Jesus preach from ...
Unlike the crowd that followed him the ones to whom he came the fishermen, like Simon coming out with him ...
Stopping what they were doing the fishermen on the shore the crowds coming to him to hear what he would ...
Speaking with authority power, conviction His words with passion demanding to be heard The fishermen doing following his commands before ...
Over the crowd, the sounds of the seashore the waves breaking at their feet Jesus preaching, sharing a message God's ...
Without his love the power of God too awesome to comprehend trembling, only, in his presence our exalted God Eternal, ...
His life changed into the waters, rising, the dove upon him into the desert tempted from his path Back to ...
In the company of believers rising before the congregation to speak words of power, of hope Sharing Your Word holy ...
The people, sharing in the joy With arms raised up hearing the word of God the ancient texts revealed Standing ...
Righting injustices standing up when opportunity calls doing what is right with love, not hate this we honor, on this ...
In being made in the image the likeness only of God Man able, to emulate to mirror the qualities of ...
Presumptuous that being made in the image that being like God makes us God like the creator, unbound, like the ...
Able to be transformed, to grow a potential for good, for love able too, great evil such is the power ...
Power, responsibility authority, made of the earth in the image of God To govern the world and tend the garden ...
The story of creation of the darkness and the light of day and night to understand time the beginning of ...
Sitting in the pew the words before me on the screen, the page wondering how to feel reading the words ...
Called by the girls, to their shape starfish beyond the water's reach in the shrinking pools rocks drying in the ...
A sudden comprehension that moment of realization understanding, awareness changing our lives Seeing the meaning in the signs around us ...
The Passion of the Christ his final days on this earth from the adoration of the people to sorrow, descending ...
Like individual starfish gathered up, thrown back into the sea our ministry, our service in this troubled world reaching out, ...
The humble baby sleeping in the stable in the manger bed Love born, come to earth God with us, Emmanuel ...
In our walking daily with Christ the yoke upon our shoulders our steps beside his The call to spread the ...
The Caesar and the Christ so different, kings of regal birth, in a manger laid power, authority, humility, death on ...
The infant, the savior coming the babe in the humble manger not in power, in glory coming, ruling in love ...
If we listen, the beauty of her words joining her servant song all of our day long her obedience, the ...
The story of the Christ not the fulfillment alone important lessons of obedient the power of God Women, mothers, prophets ...
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