Saturday, September 01, 2012
To Each as Any Had Need – v2
Out of the bounty, the faithful gifts
their community was fed, all were cared for
to each as any had need
the body, the village building them up
none were needy, because they lived
the rule to love their neighbor
as Christ loves each of us
giving back the gifts of wealth,
of property, for the common good
so all were blessed,
as any were in need
so they received
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Edited September 1, 2012
“To Each as Any Had Need – v2”
May 2, 2008
“To Each as Any Had Need”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2008/05/to-each-as-any-had-need.html
Acts 4:32-37
Upper Room daily devotional
http://www.upperroom.org/Devotional/default.asp?month=5&day=2&year=2008&x=107&y=6
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Water Shaping Stone – v3
His life changed, over time
sometimes imperceptively
like water shaping stone,
carving the rock with
the force of a torrent,
the crash of the waves,
the etching of the ice moving;
but shaping stone too,
with droplets of waters
summer rains, the drizzle of the dew
trickles down the mountainside
cutting into stone,
in little cleft points,
places where faith can
gather a foothold, collect soil
seeds can find a purchase,
scales can be flaked away
and change came, for him
like water shaping stone
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Edited September 1, 2012
“Water Shaping Stone – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/water-shaping-stone-v2.html
April 7, 2008
“Water Shaping Stone”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2008/04/water-shaping-stone.html
Walk to Emmaus
All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 19,840+ of my poems at http://www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
Black Ice – v3
Words to evoke a horrible memory
to put a chill right through me.
What was the weather forecast;
what did they say? Black ice?
My mind lurches, torn from the moment
Words that harken back, yank me
to a moment of sadness, of loss
Seeing you, the car, the chaos
Black ice, no control, nowhere to go
between the shoulders, the lines,
unknown when or where
the ice had taken over
Where the surface was no more
and the ice was in control
no traction, no steering,
sitting exposed to the traffic
Hidden danger, black ice
lurking in the dark,
ready to take another
all I could think of
when I hear those words
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edited January 11, 2016
Black Ice – v4
(editing version 3)
edited September 1, 2012
Black Ice – v3
Edited August 31, 2012
“Black Ice – v2”
December 12, 2007
“Black Ice”
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edited December 29, 2015
Demons – v2
edited December 29, 2015
Did You Hear Her Cry – v2
edited December 29, 2015
The Crash – v2
posted February 14, 2004
(the 13th
anniversary of my father’s fatal accident)
written June 18, 2001
10:54pm
The Crash
about my
father's death
February 14,
1991
and my car accident
the day I applied to law
school
edited December 18, 2015
The Submariner – v2
&
edited December 17, 2015
Meticulous – v2
&
edited December 18, 2015
Adam Asked – v2
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edited October 22, 2015
Did you brace for impact –
v2
edicted October 22, 2015
Mile Marker 19 – v8
(editing original)
edited October 5, 2015
Like the Venus Fly Trap –
v9
(editing version 5)
&
edited October 3, 2015
Why on this day – v3
(editing original)
edited October 19, 2014
Why on this day – v2
July 1, 2014
Why on this day
“My Prayers Weekend!”
“Next Day Stretch”
draft a note to God
about a day when you
struggled
with a big question
for June 29, 2014
read June 30, 2014
&
edited June 27, 2014
A vivid memory – v2
June 27, 2014
A vivid memory
Matthew 28:20 (NRSV)
Romans 8:31-39
Upper Room Daily
Devotional
“In Dark Times”
by Don Greeley
about Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder
for June 26, 2014
read June 27, 2014
Upper Room Daily
Devotional
for March and April 2014
&
edited August 15, 2015
Here it comes – v3
(editing version 2)
edited January 12, 2014
Here it comes – v2
January 12, 2014
Here it comes
January 12, 2014
I am not ready
(conversation by Dean
McKenney about his
bad car accident 40 years
ago)
January 12, 2014
an accounting to God
January 12, 2014
Honor their walk
Romans 14:10-12
Romans 14:1-12
Romans 14
Men’s Bible Study
led by Steve Curtis
Stetson Memorial United
Methodist Church
Patten, ME
January 12, 2014
&
edited August 4, 2015
Like the Venus Fly Trap –
v8
(editing version 5)
edited May
9, 2015
Ten Years –
v2
April 23,
2004
Ten Years
see also
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edited January
11, 2014
Mile Marker 19
– v7
(editing
version 6)
Edited
November 9, 2013
Mile Marker 19
– v6
(editing
version 3)
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edited March 21, 2015
Like the Venus Fly Trap –
v7
(editing version 5)
edited December 3, 2014
Like the Venus Fly Trap –
v6
(editing version 3)
Edited November 9, 2013
“Like the Venus Fly Trap –
v5”
Edited October
24, 2013
“Like the
Venus Fly Trap – v4”
Edited October
11, 2013
“Like the
Venus Fly Trap – v3”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Like the
Venus Fly Trap – v2”
December 20,
2012
“Like the Venus
Fly Trap”
edited February 11, 2014
“hiding in the ice – v9”
edited January 4, 2014
“hiding in the ice – v8”
(editing version 5)
Edited September 28, 2013
“hiding in the ice – v7”
(editing version 3)
Edited September 28, 2013
“hiding in the ice – v6”
(editing version 2)
Edited September 25, 2013
“hiding in the ice – v5”
Edited August 2, 2013
“hiding in the ice – v4”
Edited December 26, 2012
“hiding in the ice – v3”
Edited December 21, 2012
“hiding in the ice – v2”
December 21, 2012
“hiding in the ice”
Edited December 26, 2012
“Animated / Evil – v2”
December 20, 2012
“Animated / Evil”
Edited December 26, 2012
“A latent danger – v3”
December 20, 2012
“A latent danger – v2”
“A latent danger”
Edited December 26, 2012
“Smiling in the freezing –
v2”
December 20, 2012
“Smiling in the freezing”
Edited December 26, 2012
“A frozen trap – v2
December 20, 2012
“A frozen trap”
Edited December 26, 2012
“was the road innocent –
v2”
December 21, 2012
“was the road innocent”
Edited December 26, 2012
“Did the ice know – v2”
December 20, 2012
“Did the ice know”
series of new poems
also about my father’s
death,
after reviewing poem by
Jacob Montgomery,
“Icy Lanes”,
(see more of his poems at:
and exchanging emails with
him about that poem
and my father’s death
2/14/1991
&
Edited August 22, 2013
“eyes not shut – v2”
August 22, 2013
“eyes not shut”
a poem in conjured after
reading poem
“TATTOOS AND ATTITUDE”
by Chip Bergeron
&
Edited
September 20, 2012
new poem, “Did
you brace for impact”
&
Edited
September 20, 2012
“Mile Marker
19 – v5”
&
Edited September
12, 2012
“Mile Marker
19 – v4”
editing
version 2 below
&
Edited
September 12, 2012
“Mile Marker
19 – v3”
editing the
original again
inspired by
reading it at Poets’ Corner
monthly poetry
reading,
at the Suncook
Senior Center
September 10,
2012
&
edited June 6,
2012 (adding an additional last stanza)
“Mile Marker
19 – v2”
&
October 2, 2011
Did You Hear Her Cry
after rereading earlier
poem,
“Mile Marker 19”
&
Edited April 23, 2013
“No Life in Your Eyes –
v2”
February 11, 2011
“No Life in Your Eyes”
remembering the 20th
anniversary
of my father’s death,
February 14, 1991
written at the House of
Purpose coffeehouse
Hillsboro, NH
February 11, 2011
&
new poem February 11, 2014
Where you are scattered
posted March 22, 2004
written 2/26/2001
Adam Asked
posted March 18, 2004
written March 6, 2001
Meticulous
posted March 17, 2004
written 3/2/2001 and
3/5/2001
The Submariner
posted February 18, 2004
edited April 25, 2015
Home Again – v2
edited April 23, 2015
Your final resting place –
v2
edited April 25, 2015
Ashes – v2
March 2, 2001
“Ashes”
posted February 18, 2004
March 2, 2001
“Home Again”
&
posted March 10, 2004
written April 3, 2001
8:47am
Demons
&
posted February
8, 2004
original
version written 5/20/2000
“Mile Marker
19”
posted to my
blog on February 8, 2004,
as the 15th poem put on the site -
about my
father’s fatal car accident
near Mile
Marker 19
on the
Spaulding Turnpike
Rochester, NH
February 14,
1991 at 7:02pm
Valentine’s
Day
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photographs are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015. All rights
reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)
for usage. See all 40,620+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
Merely Gloves – v2
The spirit is the actor,
we merely vessels
the skin of our flesh,
gloves of the Spirit
touching lives, changing hearts
offering hope, all to God’s glory
Merely the gloves holding our neighbors
the spirit moving in us
God’s hands guiding us
to help change the world
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edited September 26, 2015
Gloves of the Spirit – v6
(editing version 3)
Edited December 14, 2013
“Gloves of the Spirit – v5”
(editing version 2)
Edited August 13, 2013
“Gloves of the Spirit – v4”
Edited July 31, 2013
“Gloves of the Spirit – v3”
edited July 14, 2012
“Gloves of the Spirit – v2”
July 24, 2010
“Gloves of the Spirit
Edited August 19, 2013
“to be cellophane vessels – v4”
Edited August 17, 2013
“gauze of the Spirit – v2”
Worship Service in the Park – 8/11/2013
Habakkuk 3:17-19 (NIV)
and sermon “There Is Hope In Community”
by Pastor Ruth Foss
sermon blog
meditation blog
Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church
Patten, ME
August 11, 2013
&
new poem, August 17, 2013
“gauze of the Spirit”
Edited August 16, 2013
“to be cellophane vessels – v3”
Edited August 16, 2013
“to be cellophane vessels – v2”
new poem, August 16, 2013
“to be cellophane vessels”
Edited August 13, 2013
“Gloves of the Spirit – v4”
Edited July 31, 2013
“Gloves of the Spirit – v3”
edited July 24, 2012
changed to “Crystal Vessels”
edited July 14, 2012
changed to “Crystal Vases”
edited July 14, 2012
“Bags of Crystal”
edited July 14, 2012
“Cellophane Bags”
edited July 14, 2012
“Gloves of the Spirit – v2”
July 24, 2010
“Gloves of the Spirit
Colossians 2:6-19 (The Message)
Luke 11:9-11 (NLT)
Psalm 100:1-3 (NLT) (Call to Worship)
Worship Theme: “Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing”
and sermon, “Buyer Beware”
by Pastor Ruth Foss
sermon blog
meditation blog
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
July 25, 2010
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
&
and quote attributed to Corrie ten Bloom,
“I have a glove here in my hand.
The glove cannot do anything by itself, but when my hand is in it, it
can do many things. True, it is not the
glove, but my hand in the glove that acts.
We are gloves. It is the Holy
Spirit in us who is the hand, who does the job.
We have to make room for the hand so that every finger is filled.”
&
edited May 23, 2014
from the Spirit – v2
May 23, 2014
from
the Spirit
Galatians 5:22-25
“Not by My Power”
devotion by Kay Robertson
for May 23, 2014
read May 23, 2014
Duck Commander Daily Devotional
compiled by Alan Robertson
&
Edited September 1, 2012
“Merely Gloves – v2”
May 21, 2010
Let me but skin – edited
as read at the House of Purpose Coffee House
May 21, 2010
Hillsboro, NH
&
February 14, 2009
Let me be but skin
written after posting the Merely Gloves to Faithwriters site
February 21, 2009
Nothing By Myself
on posting Merely Gloves and getting feedback
May 10, 2008
Merely Gloves
Acts 2:1-21
Pentecost
and quote attributed to Corrie ten Bloom,
“I have a glove here in my hand.
The glove cannot do anything by itself, but when my hand is in it, it
can do many things. True, it is not the
glove, but my hand in the glove that acts.
We are gloves. It is the Holy
Spirit in us who is the hand, who does the job.
We have to make room for the hand so that every finger is filled.”
All of my
poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015. All rights
reserved. Contact me at Ray
Foss for usage. See all 39,390+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com
Poetry Where You Live.
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Church, Pastor Ruth L. Foss, Poetry Where You Live, Raymond A. Foss, Colossians
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