How
can we be one people,
how
can we serve You, oh God;
Our
words divide us
they
pull ourselves apart?
With
Your Spirit, Lord,
bind
the wounds that exist;
help
us to discern, to see, to follow
the
path You have for us.
Teach
us to be faithful
caring
for the others;
Help
us to love all our neighbors
as
You first loved us.
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edited February 19, 2016
With Your Spirit – v6
(editing version 5)
edited March 24, 2015
With Your Spirit – v5
(editing version 3)
edited October 16, 2014
With Your Spirit – v4
(editing original again)
Edited September 13, 2013
With Your Spirit – v3
Edited September 13, 2013
With
Your Spirit – v2
June 24, 2011
With Your Spirit
&
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.
&
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
&
Matthew
10:40-42
2
Kings 4:8-11, 14-16
Psalm
13
Worship
Theme: “All Are Welcome”
and
sermon: “Ambassadors for God”
by
Pastor Ruth L. Foss
sermon blog
meditation
blog
“God’s
Whisper” blog
Suncook
United Methodist Church
June
26, 2011
Second
Sunday in Pentecost
&
note of Cynthia Good
on Keith Olbermann Special
Comment
and
Passage of gay marriage bill in
New York last night
&
posting on my Facebook page
“my 'heart' sinks with your
continued association with the United Methodist church. God's Word clearly says
that the Lord’s command is no females are allowed to be leaders. 1 Cor.
14:33-38; 1 Tim 2:12-3:12. Violating God's Word is not a recommended path to
follow.”
&
verdict and judgment in Love on
Trial,
the case against the Reverend
Amy DeLong,
&
John
8:1-11
&
June 23, 2011
Able to Breath – unedited
&
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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