Denying the Potter

How can we believe
there is no God
denying the potter
that creation was a fluke,
a cosmic coincidence
when the universe,
the atoms, the laws
the design, the plan
is so evident, so manifest
beautiful, precise
in color and rhyme
in minute and expanse
unending yet changing
by the potter’s hand
by his loving touch
ever holding us
in his arms
wanting to be with us
giving us life

August 24, 2011
written after watching a video,
“Magnificent”
http://www.andiesisle.com/creation/magnificent.html
from Andie’s Isle
http://www.andiesisle.com/

and earlier poems:
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The Poetry of Creation

By his hands, by the breath
the waters moving at creation
the word of God bringing
light into the darkness
the hands of the potter
knowing me, the hairs on my head
the number of my days
Plans for us, all of our lives
watched over, protected by God


February 28, 2010
Genesis 1:1-2:3
Genesis 2:4-25
Jeremiah 1:5
Jeremiah 18:1-6
Jeremiah 29:11
Matthew 10:30
and based on Google search string that got
someone in New Delhi, India to my blog
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Praying for the Garden

Reflecting, on our place in the garden
our role in its suffering, its need for rest
spending time with the creator
each of us praying for the garden
that it would be healed

So much of our world
yearning for peace
for rest from war, oppression, abuse
stewards, not consumers
of this good, good earth

On our knees, humbly before God
asking what we can do
to bring healing to the world
Sabbath from our labors, our excesses
peace to this wonderful earth


December 29, 2009
Philippians 4:4-7
Exodus 23:10-12
Genesis 2:4b-9, 15
Part of sermon series – “sermon, “And I Will Give You Rest”, Parts 1 and 2,
drafted by Pastor Ruth L. Foss,
prepared for both Boston University School of Theology coursework
and Suncook United Methodist Church
&
Philippians 4:4-7
Exodus 23:10-12
Isaiah 12:2-6 (Call to Worship)
Psalm 150, United Methodist Hymnal #862 (Responsive Prayer)
Genesis 1:26-30
Worship Theme: “Advent Conspiracy: Thou Shalt Rest”
sermon, “And I Will Give You Rest”
by Pastor Ruth L. Foss,
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
December 13, 2009
Third Sunday of Advent
part of a series of sermons,
using the Advent Conspiracy
http://www.adventconspiracy.org/
&
Pastoral Letter of the Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church
“God’s Renewed Creation: Call to Hope and Action”, at:
http://www.umc.org/atf/cf/%7BDB6A45E4-C446-4248-82C8-E131B6424741%7D/GRC_Pastoral%20Ltr.pdf
& more worship resources at:
http://www.gbod.org/worship/default.asp?act=reader&item_id=48267
&
Bill McKibben,
http://www.billmckibben.com/
December 10, 2009
“The Moral Math of Climate Change”
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/
Speaking of Faith
&
http://www.350.org/
350.org
&
http://en.cop15.dk/
15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15)

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