Always Listening (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
No matter our circumstances how we come to God, he is always listening open to our prayers Especially when, we ...
No matter our circumstances how we come to God, he is always listening open to our prayers Especially when, we ...
Picturing Christ at the table sitting with them in the upper room Sharing with them all each one of them ...
Trembling in the darkness after the words he had shared telling us to remember him his sacrifice for each of ...
So much pain, so much crying the weight of that moment too much for him to bear We sitting, tired ...
Frozen, in silence we in the garden stopping where he told us our master farther on His cries making us ...
The cries of our savior piercing the silence the long night of his suffering too much for him to take ...
Not just our master's tears in the garden all of us aware of the grief that he bore Feeling the ...
Like Christ in the garden hear our cry, oh Lord when we call you Save us from our sin bring ...
Like Christ in the garden hear my cry, oh Lord when I call you in the darkness Save me from ...
On the Mount of Olives in the garden, Gethsemane at this rock Christ took up the cup choosing to die ...
Christ in the garden at the rock where he prayed maybe at an altar of stone like the patriarchs the ...
The moment had come the betrayer on the way alone in the garden Christ going to pray Crushing sorrow that ...
Take this cup he cried out in pain knowing this future The crushing sorrow the suffering to come Strengthened by ...
History forever changed by the choices he made that day the upper room, the garden, before the Sanhedrin, his trial ...
As they fell sleeping unconscious of the dangers falling to sleep in the garden warnings he gave us for each ...
There in the garden leaving his disciples going farther praying alone to God What a decision Christ would make there ...
The power in his decision there in the garden to remain loyal to God to take on the sins of ...
The power of his decision there in the garden Christ choosing to take on our sin the curse brought on ...
In this season retelling his story especially the last day of his life his suffering and his sacrifice his choices ...
Like a thick heavy blanket heavy resting upon him covered in grief and sorrow Christ praying in the garden strength ...
So many other choices a range of other outcomes what he could have done in that moment of decision at ...
Knowing what was to come Christ knowing fully the terrible suffering the fruits of the choice he was making there ...
The last day of his life Christ upon the earth from the covenant in the upper room to the pain ...
Even after, but especially in that moment Christ alone in the garden though they were near to him he was ...
Despite his fears knowing what he knew faithful to God to follow his will In the garden that moment precisely ...
The meal, the Seder his blessing of the bread the breaking, the sharing the cup as well, his sacrifice In ...
Praying in the garden knowing these people oh so well all of humanity the same Christ praying in the garden ...
eternal salvation no cost but to believe the gift of God his son descending coming to dwell with us to ...
No price for his grace the love of God for man Christ come to earth to save us from our ...
repeated more than once marking time, in threes that thy will, oh God not my own but your will would ...
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