For sharing
God’s grace
offering love
sharing their
love
standing before
God
For this shamed
judged guilty,
cast out,
for this alone
our stones at
the ready.
A prayer for
mercy
for those in the
crowd
those standing
in judgment
may they rest in
their chambers
Hearing Christ
speaking
calling to them
directly
to set down
their stones
to offer their
love freely
To find another
way
to bring about
healing
not standing in
judgment
all of us God’s
children
Edited
December 31, 2013
For
Offering Love – v7
-
focused on the Council of Bishops
-
and those who will be on future juries
(editing
original again)
June
22, 2011
For Offering Love
&
Edited
December 28, 2013
Mending
What is Broken – v9
(editing
version 3)
Edited
December 23, 2013
Mending
what is Broken – v8
(editing
original again)
after
watching live stream of Frank Schaefer
preaching
at Foundry United Methodist Church
December
22, 2013
&
Edited
October 12, 2013
For
Offering Love – v6
Edited
October 7, 2013
For
Offering Love – v5
Edited
September 28, 2013
For
Offering Love – v4
Edited
September 25, 2013
For
Offering Love – v3
(editing original again)
Edited
September 7, 2013
For
Offering Love – v2
June
22, 2011
For Offering Love
&
new poem September 7, 2013
“Making the secular Holy”
This poem is about my wife and me when we got married
civilly 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.
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
&
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
Other Sheep Afrika-Kenya http://www.othersheep.org/OSEA_CL_Other_Sheep_Kenya.html
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
Matthew 28:18-20
Great Commission
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