from small seeds – v2

from small seeds

a harvest

fruit of love

from small seeds

a garden

the harvest of the Lord

from small seeds

on dry ground

life in the soil

God plants them deeply

in our hearts

life our reward

                  

------

edited May 31, 2014

from small seeds – v2

March 8, 2014

from small seeds

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/from-small-seeds.html  

Isaiah 35:1-6

Philippians 2:13

Upper Room Daily Devotional

“The Seeds of Faith”

http://devotional.upperroom.org/devotionals/2014-03-01

by Wilma A. Quinonez-Cubero

http://ipcountryclub.org/pastoral/wilma

https://twitter.com/URIntlMin/status/439671682996129792

for March 1, 2014

read March 3, 2014

Upper Room Daily Devotional

for March and April 2014

http://devotional.upperroom.org/issues/mar-apr2014

All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 30,090+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

life from the soil – v2

life from the soil

dust of the earth

creation from nothing

the breath of God

filled with His glory

God’s image within us

life from the soil

dust of the earth.

====

edited May 31, 2014

life from the soil – v2

May 15, 2014

life from the soil

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/life-from-soil.html

Genesis 2:7 (NRSV)

“Fashioned from clay”

devotion by Jessica Guillory

for May 15, 2014

read on May 15, 2014

&

Devozine for May 12, 2014 to May 18, 2014

“+creative art”

&

Patten Methodist Youth Group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/pattenmethodistyouth/

Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stetson-Memorial-United-Methodist-Church/174161846023512

Patten, ME

May 18, 2014

All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 30,090+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

The Wall

The Wall

Maybe those who believe

A piece of your soul

Is stolen with each photograph taken

Are right

Reflecting back over the years,

Looking at her tortured face

In that static image,

I wonder. I hope not, for my sake.

Hard to contemplate so many stolen moments

Pieces of others’ lives captured

By my lenses, the films’ emulsion

Now sitting in dust covered albums, yellowed envelopes and crooked frames

She stood hunched over, frozen

Jaw clenched and hands knitted,

Holding or hugging herself

Against her chill that July.

Paralyzed by her private pain

Writ large there in public, on the Mall

Countless others had and have since

Faced their own demons

In that monument’s polished black marble

(I have seen them)

For twenty minutes or a little less

I watched her pilgrimage, her prayer

A stranger motionless that stopped me

That held my attention

And the camera’s gaze before me.

Me a voyeur, an intruder, an unwelcome confidant.

She stood too near the names

To turn away;

But her feet and legs

Couldn’t carry her slight frame forward

To touch the past

The walkway before her still,

I imagine, never to be breached.

original reposted 5/31/2014

edited May 28, 2014

The Wall – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-wall-v2.html

posted February 14, 2004

The Wall

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/wall.html

June 22, 2001

===

edited May 27, 2014

“In the Rain, in that Place – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/in-rain-in-that-place-v2_27.html

edited May 26, 2014

“In the Rain, in that Place – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/in-rain-in-that-place-v2.html

Memorial Day

November 11, 2010

“In the Rain, in that Place”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/11/in-rain-in-that-place.html

Veteran’s Day 2010

and remembering being

at the Vietnam Memorial

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund

www.vvmf.org

during the 10^th anniversary

Veteran’s Day 1992

&

edited May 27, 2014

Left at the Wall – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/left-at-wall-v3.html

Edited May 26, 2014

Left at the Wall – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/left-at-wall-v2.html

Memorial Day

August 5, 2006 18:05

Left at the Wall

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/08/left-at-wall.html

&

All of my Veteran’s Day poems

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/search/label/Veteran%E2%80%99s%20Day

&

All of my Memorial Day poems

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/search/label/Memorial%20Day

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 42,390+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

sow to our own hearts – v2

we are first, to prepare

to be made ready

our own hearts, our lives

the soil, the garden

which we first must care for

sow to your own hearts

plant the seeds of love

ready for the love of God

to reap a harvest worthy

righteous before God

prepare the soil, the way

weed out the dust, the world

cleanse your own heart

your body, your lives

which we first must care for

sow to your own hearts

plant the seeds of love

ready for the love of God

to reap a harvest worthy

righteous before God

====  

edited February 13, 2016

to discern God’s answer – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/to-discern-gods-answer-v4.html

(editing version 3)

(with links to the other 110 poems inspired by the sermons below)

edited October 28, 2015

to discern God’s answer – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/to-discern-gods-answer-v3.html

(editing original)

edited June 22, 2014

to discern God’s answer – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/to-discern-gods-answer-v2.html

May 31, 2014

to discern God’s answer

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/to-discern-gods-answer.html

&

edited October 28, 2015

How much is my path – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/how-much-is-my-path-v2.html

edited October 2, 2015

Words of My Prayer – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/words-of-my-prayer-v2.html

edited October 1, 2015

shades of gray – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/shades-of-gray-v2.html

edited October 1, 2015

Christ is the answer – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/christ-is-answer-v4.html

(editing version 2)

edited October 1, 2015

Christ is the answer – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/christ-is-answer-v3.html

(editing original, adding final stanza)

edited October 1, 2015

Go to God in Prayer – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/go-to-god-in-prayer-v2.html

(editing original)

edited September 30, 2015

Go to God in Prayer – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/09/go-to-god-in-prayer-v2.html

edited September 30, 2015

Go to God in Prayer – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/09/go-to-god-in-prayer-v2.html

edited September 30, 2015

Forgiveness – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/09/forgiveness-v2.html

edited September 13, 2015

sow to our own hearts – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/09/sow-to-our-own-hearts-v4.html

(editing original again)

edited May 9, 2015

a request to God – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-request-to-god-v3.html

(editing version 2)

edited April 25, 2015

God is Patient – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/god-is-patient-v3.html

(editing version 2)

edited November 27, 2014

real, authentic – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/11/real-authentic-v3.html

(editing original version again)

July 11, 2014

Stop, look, listen

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/07/stop-look-listen.html

edited July 8, 2014

How much is for our Good – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/07/how-much-is-for-our-good-v3.html

edited July 8, 2014

pray for others – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/07/pray-for-others-v4.html

(editing version 2)

edited July 8, 2014

prayers for ourselves – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/07/prayers-for-ourselves-v2.html

edited July 8, 2014

a request to God – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-request-to-god-v2.html

edited July 8, 2014

God is Patient – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/07/god-is-patient-v2.html

edited June 30, 2014

God is Patient

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/god-is-patient.html

edited June 3, 2014

How much is for our Good – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/how-much-is-for-our-good-v2.html

edited June 25, 2014

real, authentic – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/real-authentic-v2.html

edited June 25, 2014

Christ is the answer – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/christ-is-answer-v2.html

edited June 24, 2014

Christ is the answer

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/christ-is-answer.html

June 24, 2014

Christ was the answer

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/christ-was-answer.html

edited June 24, 2014

what eats at you – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/what-eats-at-you-v2.html

edited June 24, 2014

pray for others – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/pray-for-others-v3.html

(editing original again)

June 24, 2014

He is Light, He is Love

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/he-is-light-he-is-love.html

June 24, 2014

Constant Unceasing Prayer

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/constant-unceasing-prayer.html

June 24, 2014

only in waiting

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/only-in-waiting.html

June 24, 2014

talk to God

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/talk-to-god.html

June 24, 2014

a prayer at the stop light

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-prayer-at-stop-light.html

June 24, 2014

wait a while

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/wait-while.html

June 24, 2014

prayer is not failure

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/prayer-is-not-failure.html

June 24, 2014

a promise fulfilled

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-promise-fulfilled.html

June 24, 2014

prayers for ourselves

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/prayers-for-ourselves.html

June 24, 2014

share your dreams, your concerns, your fears

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/share-your-dreams-your-concerns-your.html

June 24, 2014

how is God speaking

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/how-is-god-speaking.html

June 24, 2014

was the thought from God

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/was-thought-from-god.html

June 24, 2014

for the shades of gray

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/for-shades-of-gray.html

June 24, 2014

shades of gray

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/shades-of-gray.html

June 24, 2014

Words of My Prayer

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/words-of-my-prayer.html

June 24, 2014

we need to listen - 2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/we-need-to-listen-2.html

June 24, 2014

what does God want

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/what-does-god-want.html

June 24, 2014

our call in whispers

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/our-call-in-whispers.html

June 23, 2014

but to forgive them – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/but-to-forgive-them-v2.html

June 23, 2014

but to forgive them

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/but-to-forgive-them.html

June 23, 2014

Christ spoke prayer

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/christ-spoke-prayer.html

June 23, 2014

Go to God in Prayer

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/go-to-god-in-prayer.html

June 23, 2014

regular prayer

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/regular-prayer.html

June 23, 2014

heart to heart – 2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/heart-to-heart-2.html

edited June 23, 2014

pray for others – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/pray-for-others-v2.html

June 23, 2014

wherever you are

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/wherever-you-are.html

June 23, 2014

what eats at you

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/what-eats-at-you.html

June 23, 2014

be angry with God

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/be-angry-at-god.html

June 23, 2014

an honest conversation

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/an-honest-conversation.html  

June 23, 2014

pray for others

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/pray-for-others.html

June 23, 2014

a request to God

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-request-to-god.html  

June 23, 2014

real, authentic

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/real-authentic.html

edited June 23, 2014

calling to God – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/calling-to-god-v2.html

June 23, 2014

calling to God

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/calling-to-god.html

edited June 23, 2014

A Model Prayer – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-model-prayer-v2.html

edited/ merged June 23, 2014

A Model Prayer

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-model-prayer.html

(combining the following poems

to show the structure of the Lord’s Prayer)

June 23, 2014

-          identity

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/identity.html

-          praise

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/praise.html

-          petition

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/petition.html  

-          supplication

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/supplication.html

-          confession

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/confession.html

-          forgiveness

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/forgiveness.html

-          intercession

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/intercession.html

June 23, 2014

seeking God - 3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/seeking-god-3.html

June 23, 2014

God won’t leave us in darkness

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/god-wont-leave-us-in-darkness.html

edited June 22, 2014

seven minutes of silence – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/seven-minutes-of-silence-v2.html

edited June 22, 2014

sow to our own hearts – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/sow-to-our-own-hearts-v3.html

edited June 22, 2014

come to God as children – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/come-to-god-as-children-v2.html

June 22, 2014

come to God as children

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/come-to-god-as-children.html

edited June 22, 2014

Prayer suffers long

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/prayer-suffers-long.html

June 22, 2014

Prayer suffereth long

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/prayer-suffereth-long.html

June 22, 2014

Prayer is Patient

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/prayer-is-patient.html

June 22, 2014

Let’s talk about prayer

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/lets-talk-about-prayer.html

June 22, 2014

come to God unrighteous

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/come-to-god-unrighteous.html

June 22, 2014

falling on our knees

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/falling-on-our-knees.html

June 22, 2014

may we be patient

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/may-we-be-patient.html

June 22, 2014

How can we hear God’s answer

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/how-can-we-hear-gods-answer.html

June 22, 2014

a prayer isn’t a demand

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-prayer-isnt-demand.html

June 22, 2014

we need to listen

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/we-need-to-listen.html

June 22, 2014

empty the garbage

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/empty-garbage.html

&

Matthew 6:5-14

“Jesus Teaches About Prayer” (NCV)

(including Lord’s Prayer)

Ephesians 6:11-18

Sermon 1 of “All My Days: A Summer of Prayer”

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=539017212871305&set=pb.174161846023512.-2207520000.1403458170.&type=3&permPage=1

Summer Sermon Series on Prayer

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=539017436204616&set=pb.174161846023512.-2207520000.1403458170

children’s message by Ray Foss

-          God fills in the words we pray

based on Upper Room reading for June 9, 2014, read June 18, 2014

Romans 8:26 (NRSV)

Romans 8:22-27

Upper Room Daily Devotional

“Guided by the Spirit”

http://devotional.upperroom.org/devotionals/2014-06-09

by Milly Ibanda

for June 9, 2014

read June 18, 2014

Upper Room Daily Devotional

for March and April 2014

http://devotional.upperroom.org/issues/may-jun%202014

-          spontaneous prayer, wait for God’s answer

(based on Shanequa’s prayer for a puppy July 21, 2006)

opening and welcome by Pastor Ruth Foss

https://twitter.com/PastorRuthFoss

http://www.facebook.com/pastorruthfoss

http://www.pstruthsermons.blogspot.com

sermon blog

http://www.pstrruthfoss.blogspot.com

meditation blog

http://pstrfoss.wordpress.com/

“God’s Whisper” blog

and sermon, “Stop, Look and Listen”

by Sally Drew

https://www.facebook.com/sally.drew.35

Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stetson-Memorial-United-Methodist-Church/174161846023512

June 22, 2014

&

May 31, 2014

He will come

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/he-will-come.html

May 31, 2014

Call upon God

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/call-upon-god.html

May 31, 2014

not the words

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/not-words.html

May 31, 2014

pray the silence

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/pray-silence.html

May 31, 2014

seven minutes of silence

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/seven-minutes-of-silence.html

May 31, 2014

Being right with God

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/being-right-with-god.html

May 31, 2014

How to pray – 2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/how-to-pray-2.html

May 31, 2014

Choose Daily

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/choose-daily.html

May 31, 2014

How much is for our Good

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/how-much-is-for-our-good.html

May 31, 2014

How must is God’s path

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/how-much-is-gods-path.html

May 31, 2014

How much is my path

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/how-much-is-my-path.html

May 31, 2014

a different path – 2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-different-path-2.html

May 31, 2014

a different choice

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-different-choice.html

May 31, 2014

prepare the soil – 2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/prepare-soil.html

edited May 31, 2014

to embrace the seed – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/to-embrace-seed-v2.html

&

November 26, 2012

to embrace the seed

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/11/to-embrace-seed.html

page 178, Chapter 12,

“In the Belly of the Beast”

The Shack, by William P. Young

http://www.theshackbook.com

&

echat with Isaac Tiibasima

November 25, 2012

&

edited May 31, 2014

God could make a garden – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/god-could-make-garden-v3.html

edited May 31, 2014

God could make a garden – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/god-could-make-garden-v2.html

March 8, 2014

God could make a garden

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/god-could-make-garden.html

Isaiah 35:1-6

Philippians 2:13

Upper Room Daily Devotional

“The Seeds of Faith”

http://devotional.upperroom.org/devotionals/2014-03-01

by Wilma A. Quinonez-Cubero

http://ipcountryclub.org/pastoral/wilma

https://twitter.com/URIntlMin/status/439671682996129792

for March 1, 2014

read March 3, 2014

Upper Room Daily Devotional

for March and April 2014

http://devotional.upperroom.org/issues/mar-apr2014

May 31, 2014

&

edited May 31, 2014

sow to our own hearts – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/sow-to-our-own-hearts-v2.html

May 30, 2014

sow to our own hearts

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/sow-to-our-own-hearts.html

Hosea 10:12

“Sow righteousness for yourselves,

reap the fruit of unfailing love,

and break up your unplowed ground;

for it is time to seek the LORD,

until he comes and showers his righteousness on you.”

Hosea 6:3

“Let us acknowledge the LORD;

let us press on to acknowledge him.

As surely as the sun rises, he will appear;

he will come to us like the winter rains,

like the spring rains that water the earth."

prayer

Maya Angelou’s passing

and sermonette, thoughts about

how to make us right with God (righteous)

and how to pray

by Sally Drew

https://www.facebook.com/sally.drew.35

Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stetson-Memorial-United-Methodist-Church/174161846023512

Fourth Friday of the month service at Mt. Heights Health Care Facility

https://plus.google.com/112258655024978042979/about

https://www.facebook.com/MountainHeightsHealthCareFacility

https://twitter.com/MountHeights

Patten, ME

May 30, 2014

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 41,050+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.