For offering love
for sharing God’s
grace
sharing their
love
standing before
God
For this shamed,
Judged guilty,
put at risk
for this alone
our stones at the
ready.
A prayer for
mercy
for those in the
crowd
those assigned to
stand in judgment
May they rest
deeply
Hearing Christ
speaking
calling to them,
a whisper, a
prayer,
to set down our
stones
to offer their
love
====
edited
January 2, 2015
For
Offering Love – v8
(editing
version 2)
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 January 2, 2015
Making the Secular Holy – v6
(editing original again)
edited November 4, 2014
Making the secular Holy – v5
(editing original again)
edited October
16, 2014
Making the
secular Holy – v4
(editing
original again)
Edited
September 8, 2013
“Making the
secular Holy – v3”
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.
&
edited January
2, 2015
Divided Lives
– v6
(editing
original again)
Edited
November 24, 2013
Divided Lives
– v5
(after verdict
and sentence on Rev. Frank Schaefer)
Edited October
25, 2013
Divided Lives
– v4
(editing version 2)
Edited
September 26, 2013
Divided Lives
– v3
(editing
original again)
Edited
September 15, 2013
Divided Lives
– v2
June 19, 2011
Divided Lives
&
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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