Our communities, our faith journey
hope in love, in living together
in a common purpose, in following Christ
growing as one, like a summer garden
fed and watered, by the depths of God’s love
healing coming, weeds removed
dry places tilled, new soil begun
watered by God, by love
by God’s love come down
growing like a garden
tended and cared for
a harvest in God’s season
all to be restored
Edited February 28, 2014
Growing Like a Garden – v5
(editing original again)
Edited November 23, 2013
Growing Like a Garden – v4
(editing original again)
written after conviction
and sentence against Rev. Frank Schaefer
&
Edited November 16, 2013
Growing Like a Garden – v3
Edited September 18, 2013
Growing Like a Garden – v2
June
28, 2011
Growing
Like a Garden
Reverend
Janet Wolf
Sermon,
Hymn, Poem - June 23, 2011
Reverend
Amy Delong
Love on Trial,
the case against the Reverend
Amy DeLong,
&
June 12, 2011
A time to come together
June 13, 2011
Looking
down at my hands
&
Edited September 7, 2013
“Making the secular Holy –
v2”
new poem September 7, 2013
“Making the secular Holy”
----
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.
----
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
&
Matthew
10:40-42
2
Kings 4:8-11, 14-16
Psalm
13
Worship
Theme: “All Are Welcome”
and
sermon: “Ambassadors for God”
by
Pastor Ruth Foss
sermon blog
meditation blog
Suncook
United Methodist Church
June
26, 2011
Second
Sunday in Pentecost
&
note of Cynthia Good
on Keith Olbermann Special
Comment
and
Passage of gay marriage bill in
New York last night
&
posting on my Facebook page
“my 'heart' sinks with your
continued association with the United Methodist church. God's Word clearly says
that the Lord’s command is no females are allowed to be leaders. 1 Cor.
14:33-38; 1 Tim 2:12-3:12. Violating God's Word is not a recommended path to
follow.”
&
June 23, 2011
Able to Breath – unedited
&
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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