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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Looking Down at Mary – v4


Looking down at Mary
as the Master spoke to us
one of the crowd
holding onto my stone
the pain of his words
cutting into me
the truth of my sin

Dropping my stone
hearing the others fall
all around me, all of us
ashamed, walking away
no longer judging
leaving him alone with her
in the shadow of our sin

Knowing something special
of how to walk each day
leaving my stones
left upon the ground
humble in my judgment
knowing my own way
the depth of my sin


Edited October 12, 2013
Looking Down at Mary – v4
Edited October 5, 2013
Looking Down at Mary – v3
(editing original again)
Edited September 17, 2013
Looking Down at Mary – v2
June 13, 2011
Looking Down at Mary
&
Edited September 7, 2013
“Making the secular Holy – v2”
new poem September 7, 2013
“Making the secular Holy”
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This poem is about my wife and me when we got married
in a civil service on December 17, 2004 in Concord, NH in White Park
and then before our church family at
Wesley United Methodist Church in Concord, NH
on April 23, 2005.
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We celebrate 2 anniversaries because they both mean a great
deal to us, in very different ways.
I grieve for those who are able to marry civilly in so many
states now, such as NH, but are unable to marry in their
United Methodists churches and for the clergy who are put on trial
for choosing to go against the Discipline to marry them.
&
trials of Rev. Frank Schaefer
and Rev. Thomas Ogletree
and  Rev. Steve Heiss
&
Edited September 7, 2013
For Offering Love – v2
June 22, 2011
For Offering Love
Love on Trial,
the case against the Reverend Amy DeLong,
which begins on June 20, 2011
&
John 8:1-11
&
Samuel Thompson’s
Inclusion Essay
shared at the New England United Methodist Church
Annual Conference
in response to call by Reconciling Ministries Network
for essays describing, “My vision for an inclusive church”,
June 10, 2011
&
in part inspired by conversations with
the Reverend John Makokha
Riruta UMC
Children of Africa Hope Mission Project in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. http://rirutaumc.homestead.com/children_of_africa.html
&
Matthew 25:31-46
The Sheep and the Goats
&
Matthew 28:18-20
Great Commission

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