Consumers – v3

We are told to be something

counter to our faith

consumers, not stewards,

to use the precious earth

to feed as we may choose

Leaving none left behind

going to the edge of the field

every last bit of the gleaning,

and going far beyond

Like a plague or war on the land

like locusts, consumers,

the Prodigal we have become

wasting what we have

caring not for our Father’s love

Taking what we can

gorging on our wealth

leaving nothing in our wakes

but debt, and hurt and ache

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edited November 28, 2014

Consumers – v3

Black Friday 2014

Edited August 22, 2013

Consumers – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/08/consumers-v2.html

November 8, 2009

Consumers

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/11/consumers.html

Luke 15:11-32, “The Prodigal Son”

Proverbs 21:5, 21:20

Psalm 98:4-8 (Call to Worship)

and Matthew 6:24

“No man can serve two masters:

for either he will hate the one,

and love the other; or else he will hold to the one,

and despise the other.

Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”

& sermon “The Saints and Their Checkbooks”

by Reverend Huntley Halvorson

Suncook United Methodist Church

Suncook, NH

November 8, 2009

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