On God’s Holy Word (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
in prayer and reflection in meditation and fasting drawing closer to him studying, leaning on God's holy word finding comfort ...
in prayer and reflection in meditation and fasting drawing closer to him studying, leaning on God's holy word finding comfort ...
Do the people of the world those who are yet strangers see the face of Christ when they look upon ...
No gifts like the Magi not royalty no gold, no spices no fragrant perfume Offering our hands the work to ...
Do we see the rough hands of the fishermen when we look at our hands do we see the scars ...
Do others see love when they look upon us do they see our Savior in the way that we live ...
When we look at our hands do we see the scars of the nails the sacrifice of Christ Do we ...
Leaving their nets the fish on the shore their families, their homes their lives to that day Going with Jesus ...
Feeling his touch the roughness of his hands the scars from the nails where he was crucified the touch of ...
Watching the fishermen the ones who followed who sought the Messiah who followed the Christ Leaving John, their nets, working ...
Hands that are given offered unto God holy witness to the love in the word Hands that lifted orphans gave ...
The hands of the shepherd the hands of the savior hands of the sacrifice dying for us The hands of ...
We think of the fishermen the first disciples their hands doing the work of the church Each of them chosen ...
Hands of the carpenter the hands of Joseph the father of Jesus raising our Savior as his own son Teaching ...
The world, the web of life all of us connected consequences for our choices impacting the earth Our footsteps falling ...
Pulling a string one strand of the web the connectedness of life all of us together Pulling a string affecting ...
Sometimes subtle sometimes dramatic consequences to our actions when we obey the laws of God when we disobey as well ...
Everything ordered intricate, sublime yet everything sensitive to your choice and mine The world, all of creation the tapestry, the ...
The consequences on changes choices we make every day our wills guiding, often without thought of the ripples, the pulls ...
From a drip, a torrent the consequences unseen in the choices we make the little changes in time using the ...
Our lives together, all of us one part of the family woven in the web of life Needing to be ...
Not separate, alone each of us woven a thread in the web connected to all life All of creation part ...
Tremors in the web as we become separate acting as if alone not part of the web of life Our ...
So many years, studying the bible the words of scripture what meaning they hold reading in measured prescribed passages following ...
Not a member of the elite never sitting, studying in the Temple working, with his calloused hands the nets, the ...
When we are able to trust a bit more to let go of our cares turning them over to our ...
Like birds still in the nest not yet ready for flight Stay here, in the holy city do not venture ...
A richer story, a richer life carrying more, of the word of God words written indelibly, engraved on my mind, ...
to strive, to grow, to fight growing spiritually together, living our faith in community worshiping, studying, changing the world together ...
Out of love, reverence, in faith and in hope, turning our lives to God, to the risen Christ, we give ...
Studying Your word Sharing my faith with others growing into You January 19, 2008 (Raymond A. Foss)
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