To have stood there
by the seashore
to have dropped our nets
to have followed
There in the Garden
the guards descending
his life, gone, on the cross
the joy of Easter
To have been on that
hillside,
having walked with the Lord.
To have been with him,
risen,
knowing we are restored.
To believe because we had
seen,
to have walked with Jesus.
Knowing the cross,
but also knowing Easter.
To stand in the presence of
God,
to feel Christ with us.
To go into the wilderness,
even as he ascended.
To hear his final words,
his commission, his victory.
To watch as he ascended;
we go into the world.
If we cannot imagine the
Ascension,
if we sometimes doubt
Easter,
if we do not live Pentecost,
all the days of our lives
If we don’t follow the Great
Commission,
if we don’t say with Joshua,
“as for me and my house,
we will serve the Lord”
What is the point,
why do we claim Jesus,
if we do not love,
if we do not love as he did.
We are commissioned,
we are commanded;
we are called to share the
message,
to bear his light in this
world.
To stand in the presence of
God,
to walk yoked to Jesus,
we are called to feel his
sweat,
to feel the Spirit in us.
We are not to ask What
Would Jesus Do,
but to sense his Spirit
guiding,
leading us in this life,
listening for his message,
the power to change our
lives.
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May 23, 2013 and
May 7, 2013
edited after reading it at Poets’ Corner
monthly poetry reading,
at the Suncook Senior Center
May 6, 2013
&
April
28, 2013
Worship
Theme: “Ascension Sunday:
The
Great Things God’s Love Does”
John
14:23-29
Acts
16:9-15
Revelations
21:10, 22:1-5
Call
to Worship
Unison
Prayer
Prayer
of Dedication
Message
for Children
and
sermon “To Stand in the Presence of God”
by
Raymond A. Foss
substituting
for Pastor Ruth Foss
A Handmaiden of the Lord
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
May 5, 2013
Ascension
Sunday
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