Known within the Gates

In the moment of entering
eternity, God’s kingdom
the realm of paradise
the courts of the Lord

Welcomed as a child
a son, a daughter of the most high
known within the gates
a sheep of the flock

Each of our days, our hairs
our lives numbered, known to God
each of us worthy, welcomed
by the grace of our Lord

Known, the walk of our lives
the lives we have touched
all of our days numbered, written
in the pages of our book

Our lives, our walk
each moment written down
like ripples on a pond
echoing on down

Down through the years, the lives
the others we have touched
echoing on, building
in waves of love from us

October 3, 2011
written about Aaron Jamison
http://www.facebook.com/judasforgiven
http://judasforgiven.blogspot.com/
http://main.acsevents.org/goto/choosejoy
http://amzn.com/w/286JOQLNRZ2M0
He identified his religion as Christianity, but then added
"Judge Christianity by Christ... not by Christians."
see article by his mother, Jan Coffman Jamison
http://www.facebook.com/janray
of September 30, 2011
Crossroads
http://jan-auntiejan.blogspot.com/2011/09/crossroads.html?spref=fb
and see article by his wife, Kristin Foss Jamison
http://www.facebook.com/blessedsongbird
of October 1, 2011
http://kristinjamison.blogspot.com/2011/10/extreme-makeover-god-edition.html?spref=fb
and my conversation October 2, 2011
with Kristin’s mom, Ruth Foss
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1656220806
&
earlier poem,
“Known to God”
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Known to God

Each one of us created
crafted out of the clay
made in the image of the creator
each of us known to God

None left behind
each one of us alike
none more important to God
all of us his children
each with a common stake

Not lost or anonymous
known by the creator
for each of us Christ came to earth
to save us, each one
from our debt of sin


January 13, 2010
Genesis 1:1-2:4
(read responsively by the congregation,
speaking the words of God)
Psalm 19:1-13
Congregational Centering hymn:
“Let All Things Now Living”
Faith We Sing, #2008
Anthem: “The Time Between”,
http://www.gbod.org/worship/music/timebetween-crider.pdf
by R. Frederick Crider, Jr. (Ps. 31:14-15)
and sermon, “The Book of Genesis: The Story of Our Beginning”
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson,
based in part on Chapter One (Genesis 1:1-2:3),
of book, Wrestling With Angels: What Genesis Teaches Us About
Our Spiritual Identity, Sexuality and Personal Relationships,
by Naomi H. Rosenblatt and Joshua Horwitz
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
January 10, 2010
First Sunday in Epiphany
(Baptism of the Lord Sunday)
&
Psalm 8:4-5 (KJV)
“What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.”

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