Only in God’s Image

We are a mere reflection
painted on the glass
only a spark inside
far less than God

Only God’s reflection
an image of the divine
a piece of him planted only
in your heart and mine

Yet that spark enough
that seed deep inside
growing, moving
setting our feet

Changing our lives
to share God’s love
offered to us freely
through the sacrifice of the cross

The Son who came down
fully man, fully God
healing us to Him
to our Creator, our Lord

Only in God’s image
but that is enough
showing God to them
from our hands and our love

October 4, 2011
written after reviewing comments on earlier poem,
“Understanding being made in God’s Image”,
after I posted it to www.faithwriters.com
October 4, 2011
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January 14, 2010
Worship service after Our Family’s Table
Mediation by Pastor Ruth L. Foss,
on the meaning of “being made in the image of God”
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
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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