The Gift of the Counselor (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Beyond imagination, the words words we cannot find a voice, a groan, sighs from within He is there, the gift ...
Beyond imagination, the words words we cannot find a voice, a groan, sighs from within He is there, the gift ...
It is the sharing, the fire of Pentecost the Spirit descending the believers apostles given voice, given power The church ...
The flames, the fire of the Spirit burning within us, embers, seeds, planted deep within the breath of God blowing ...
Seeds scattered, planted watered by fire Flames of the Spirit giving us life Commissioned, sent to the ends of the ...
The seeds planted long ago deep within our hearts watered by fire, given life the birth of the church the ...
Not to the ends of the earth those in our daily lives Here is the fertile soil the tilled fields ...
We are given seeds to plan but there are seeds to water too those planted before our time some growing ...
Would that we would see all the world, to the ends of the earth Set ablaze by the seeds of ...
our prayer, in giving of our resources asking for wisdom, for guidance on where the monies should be spent; but ...
Praying to the Spirit for guidance, for illumination for the Spirit's presence with us choosing the word, sojourn, a brief ...
Commissioned by the Savior to be his ambassadors, his emissaries his missionaries in the world Equipped for the work tools ...
Spirit of truth, spirit of fire Fall upon me illumine me, guide me Show me your way the path you ...
Our prayer, this day, in worship an entering in, a call to the Spirit Sharing words together, as one voice ...
The timid disciples, gathered in a room hiding in Jerusalem, in their hidden place the mysteries revealed, shared by the ...
Like a hurricane, coming straight for them a thundering rush of wind, piercing the night so was the entrance of ...
The book, the story opened made accessible, reachable in native tongues, in words understood the power of Pentecost meeting each ...
Come upon us Holy Spirit of God fall upon us wellspring of our hearts bubble up from within us the ...
Not servants, friends instead brought into understanding sharing with our brother the creator's plan no longer master and slave walking ...
Not in isolation, single branches, struggling alone in the storms; in connection, interlocking, twined branches growing grapes, fruits of the ...
Our children, the living heart the church of today, now not some future, the church of tomorrow The core, our ...
Connected, intertwined, the branches, the vine knitted together, strong, growing, loving, nurturing the branches, the vine, touching linked one to ...
The church, a grapevine entwined branches abiding in God Being love, nurturing welcoming children caring for one another the vine, ...
See the children, singing in sanctuary laughing, running in the church they are the grapes, the fruit of the vine ...
Living in the vine, abiding in the love of the creator living in the vine, abiding in the strength of ...
They are the fruits the children of our faith the grapes of the vine, being nurtured, cared for pruned, watered, ...
Smiling faces, the running feet squealing voices, the happy smiles sitting, squirming, in the pews at the feet of the ...
Clustered in the branches not individuals, not the branches, not the fruits, clusters, a bunch of grapes not a single ...
The Vine, like the womb, the umbilical cord; but more never to be severed, never cut the vine a part ...
Living in the vine, connected, to its strength to the love, life-giving succor sustenance of the vine feeding the branches, ...
Sitting with them, in their home, at the end of the day at the table with them, a stranger no ...
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