Saturday, November 16, 2013

In a Cadence of Sadness – v2

Words flowing freely
like rivers of water
coming to me quickly
yet bringing me to my knees

In a cadence of sadness
thinking of what is moving
the judgment upon the shepherds
casting them out

Judging them wanting
because of their love
not something of their choosing
but because of who they are

The stones of the judgment
in each of our hands
yet bound by the verdict
the poison soon at hand

Not seeing an answer
an inexorable conclusion
seeing them as martyrs
bearing this burden as their cross

Before the church’s resurrection
in a vision and a polity
of inclusion, inclusive,
more equal to our faith


Edited November 16, 2013
In a Cadence of Sadness – v2
June 11, 2011
In a Cadence of Sadness
Edited November 16, 2013
Giving Them Our Stones – v2
June 11, 2011
Giving Them Our Stones
&
Edited November 16, 2013
Throwing Stones in Our Name – v2”
June 11, 2011
Throwing Stones in Our Name
Edited November 15, 2013
An Inclusive Church – v5
(editing original version again)
Edited September 8, 2013
An Inclusive Church – v4
Edited September 1, 2013
An Inclusive Church – v3
Edited August 28, 2013
An Inclusive Church – v2
June 12, 2011
An Inclusive Church
John 8
&
June 23, 2011
Able to Breath – unedited
&
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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