Without Cheering

A quiet resolve
a sense of some closure;
but the pain still there
our innocence gone

Without cheering
no joy in his killing
believing in our country;
but not parading the body
dragging his corpse
around the city walls

Our hearts different
not choosing to hate
trying to follow Jesus
within the coarseness of this world


May 3, 2011
Selected Shorts on NPR,
http://www.selectedshorts.org/
heard May 1, 2011
including The Death of Hector
from Homer’s The Iliad
http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=client_ymp&p=NPR_135893937.mp3%20
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/shorts/2011/may/01/
&
Death of Osama bin Laden
May 1, 2011
and remembering the al Qaeda terrorism of
September 11, 2011
&
sermon, “We Lawyers Are Good For Something”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/05/sermon-we-lawyers-are-good-for.html
based on Luke 10:25-37
by Raymond A. Foss, Esq.
July 15, 2007
Wesley United Methodist Church, Concord, NH
(with bulletin inserts of Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda terrorists)

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