I weep for my brothers, for
sisters
who cannot know this joy
making the secular Holy
standing before our Lord
We married outside
under a snowy sky;
Yes, we professed our love
out loud before our God
But the ceremony was incomplete
needing our church wedding
the moment when we stood
before the congregation in
the temple
Making the secular Holy
the imprimatur of faith;
standing in that community
feeling the gift of grace
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
&
new poem
September 7, 2013
“Making the
secular Holy”
----
&
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
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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