When Jesus was in the
garden,
Gethsemane, the Mount of
Olives,
His face was contorted,
ashen,
wearing a mask of pain
frozen;
His sweat falling like blood,
smeared upon His face
Our Master, Jesus,
the Messiah, the Christ,
confronting us, His disciples
waking us from our tired
sleep;
Our bodies weak, now in
shock,
at what had happened to
Jesus
Christ had been praying in
the garden,
Gethsemane, the Mount of
Olives,
our cup to His lips, our
sin,
the sweat of blood flowing;
Foreshadowing His torture,
the Passion just begun
Christ wore the crown of
thorns,
He suffered the whip,
nails piercing His flesh,
His body broken for us;
He died on the cross
to save humanity
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edited August 5, 2015
waking the disciples – v7
(editing version 5)
edited December 22, 2014
waking the disciples – v6
(editing version 2)
edited December 22, 2014
waking the disciples – v5
(editing version 3)
edited February 23, 2014
“waking the disciples – v4”
(editing version 2)
Edited October 23, 2013
“waking the disciples – v3”
Edited October 14, 2013
“waking the disciples – v2”
new poem February 27, 2013
“waking the disciples”
new poem February 27, 2013
“sweat of blood”
new poem February 27, 2013
Luke 22:44
“tears of blood”
Edited February 27, 2013
“The Cup of Our Vomit – v3”
Edited September 6, 2012
“The Cup of Our Vomit – v2”
Edited September 6, 2012
new poem title, “The Cup of Our Vomit”
Mark
7:21-23 (NIV)
Mark
7:20-23 (The Message)
‘He (Christ) went on: "It's what comes out
of a person that pollutes:
obscenities, lusts, thefts, murders, adulteries,
greed, depravity,
deceptive dealings, carousing, mean looks,
slander, arrogance,
foolishness—all these are vomit from the heart.
There is the source of your pollution."’
Scripture taken from The Message. Copyright © 1993,
1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing
Group.
Mark
7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
(Revised
Common Lectionary, Year C)
Upper
Room Disciplines for 2012
August
27, 2012 to September 2, 2012
“True
Worship”
by
Jerry Kearney
for
August 29, 2012,
read August 30, 2012
&
Spirit
Study
led
by Pastor Ruth Foss
sermon blog
meditation blog
Suncook United
Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
September 2, 2012
&
earlier poem of
February 8, 2010
“The Cup of Our Sin”
John 14:1-3, 12-18, 25-27
Psalm 46 (Call to Worship)
Psalm 23
and sermon, “When Your World Come Crashing Down”
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson
Suncook
United Methodist Church
Suncook,
NH
February 7, 2010,
based in part on article,
"Trauma and Theology",
by Professor Shelly Rambo,
Boston University School of Theology,
Focus Magazine, Winter 2009
&
Matthew 26:17-30;
Mark 14:12-25;
Luke 22:7-20.
&
Luke 22:39-46
Matthew 26:35-45
Matthew 26:39
“And he went a little further, and fell on his face,
and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible,
let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will,
but as thou wilt”. (KJV)
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2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015. All rights
reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage.
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