Poetry Where You Live

sermon blog

meditation blog

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/12/tended-with-love.html

“God’s Whisper” blog

Suncook United Methodist Church

Suncook, NH

November 15, 2009

Her sermon is the third of a four-part series based in part on

Reverend Adam Hamilton (http://www.cor.org/about-resurrection/adam/)’s book,

“Enough: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and Generosity” (http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=9781426702334)

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 42,590+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

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Friday, December 18, 2015

Tended with Love – v2

As if a garden, our lives

to our Father God;

The joy, love, relationship

our connection with God, our families,

our friends, neighbors, even strangers

tended with love, a daily practice

of our walk, daily, seeking God’s will.

Following God’s model, of living as a servant,

as Christ, His example, our brother

offering such love, in coming to the earth

as the fulfillment of prophecy, and more

The disciplines of His life, now our prayer

our meditation, in times in corporate worship

all of these are tangible ways to model

to live our lives as Christ;

Nurturing, watering, weeding

tending the garden of our lives

a harvest for our God.

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edited December 18, 2015

Tended with Love – v2

December 5, 2009

Tended with Love

Upper Room Disciplines for 2009

http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/description.asp?item_id=531844

Philippians 1:9-11

for December 5, 2009

by F. Douglas Powe, Jr.

All of my poems and photographs are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 40,400+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

Monday, October 26, 2015

Instantly – v2

So much of our troubles

in the defining term, “instantly”,

wanting it now, more, more, ever more

things, gadgets, ways of doing this or that

the religion of the new, the better

Claiming our joy, sapping our energies,

losing our focus on the important,

false gods that they are, the urgent,

blinding us to the worthy,

the lasting, even the Divine

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edited October 26, 2015

Instantly – v2

November 24, 2009

Instantly

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post_24.html

Christ the King Sunday

Luke 6:37-38

Psalm 92:1-4

Hymn: “Come, Ye Thankful People Come”,

by Henry Aford,

United Methodist Hymnal, # 694,

based on Mark 4:26-29 (Parable of the Growing Seeds)

and Matthew 13:36-43 (Parable of the Weeds)

& sermon “Defined by Generosity”

by Reverend Huntley Halvorson

Suncook United Methodist Church

Suncook, NH

November 22, 2009

His sermon is the final of a four-part series based in part on

Reverend Adam Hamilton (http://www.cor.org/about-resurrection/adam/)’s book,

“Enough: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and Generosity” (http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=9781426702334)

Luke 12:15-21

and Psalm 16

and “The Prayer of St. Francis”,

United Methodist Hymnal #481;

and sermon, “I Want It All . . .”,

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/11/sermon-i-want-it-all-by-pastor-ruth-l.html

by Pastor Ruth Foss

sermon blog

meditation blog

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/07/needing-god-with-me.html

“God’s Whisper” blog

Suncook United Methodist Church

Suncook, NH

November 15, 2009

Her sermon is the third of a four-part series based in part on

Reverend Adam Hamilton (http://www.cor.org/about-resurrection/adam/)’s book,

“Enough: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and Generosity” (http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=9781426702334)

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, 2015. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 39,770+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

Wednesday, July 08, 2015

Needing God with me – v2

Not a sometimes thing

always, in my life;

I need God with me

for I am so weak.

Direction when I wander

wondering which way to turn;

I hope when I struggle

to stay on my path.

I need God with me

to walk beside me yet;

to walk with me ever

all the days of my life.

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edited July 8, 2015

Needing God with me – v2

July 14, 2010

Needing God with me

based on seeing search that landed

someone from Huddersfield, UK

onto my blog on 7/14/2010

“I will give you rest”

Philippians 4:4-7

Exodus 23:10-12

Isaiah 12:2-6 (Call to Worship)

Psalm 150, United Methodist Hymnal #862 (Responsive Prayer)

Genesis 1:26-30

Worship Theme: “Advent Conspiracy: Thou Shalt Rest”

sermon, “And I Will Give You Rest”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/12/sermon-and-i-will-give-you-rest-by.html

by Pastor Ruth Foss

sermon blog

meditation blog

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/11/caring-for-earth.html

“God’s Whisper” blog

Suncook United Methodist Church

Suncook, NH

December 13, 2009

Third Sunday of Advent

part of a series of sermons,

using the Advent Conspiracy

http://www.adventconspiracy.org/

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, 2015. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 38,210+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

Friday, May 29, 2015

The caring for the earth – v2

All of us together were

charged from the very beginning

to dominion and stewardship

a caring for the earth

The earth finite,

needing to conserve, to give back,

to treat our earth with reverence;

Caring for our earth

as each of us are commissioned

as we walk in this life.

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edited May 29, 2015

The caring for the earth – v2

November 24, 2009

The caring for the earth

Pastoral Letter of the Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church

“God’s Renewed Creation: Call to Hope and Action”, at:

http://www.umc.org/atf/cf/%7BDB6A45E4-C446-4248-82C8-E131B6424741%7D/GRC_Pastoral%20Ltr.pdf

& more worship resources at:

http://www.gbod.org/worship/default.asp?act=reader&item_id=48267

Christ the King Sunday

Call to Worship

(taken from United Methodist Book of Worship, page 76)

Luke 6:37-38

Psalm 92:1-4

Hymn: “Come, Ye Thankful People Come”,

by Henry Aford,

United Methodist Hymnal, # 694,

based on Mark 4:26-29 (Parable of the Growing Seeds)

and Matthew 13:36-43 (Parable of the Weeds)

& sermon “Defined by Generosity”

by Reverend Huntley Halvorson

Suncook United Methodist Church

Suncook, NH

November 22, 2009

His sermon is the final of a four-part series based in part on

Reverend Adam Hamilton (http://www.cor.org/about-resurrection/adam/)’s book,

“Enough: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and Generosity” (http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=9781426702334)

Luke 12:15-21

and Psalm 16

and “The Prayer of St. Francis”,

United Methodist Hymnal #481;

and sermon, “I Want It All . . .”,

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/11/sermon-i-want-it-all-by-pastor-ruth-l.html

by Pastor Ruth Foss

sermon blog

meditation blog

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/11/following-world.html

“God’s Whisper” blog

Suncook United Methodist Church

Suncook, NH

November 15, 2009

Her sermon is the third of a four-part series based in part on

Reverend Adam Hamilton (http://www.cor.org/about-resurrection/adam/)’s book,

“Enough: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and Generosity” (http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=9781426702334)

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, 2015. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 37,740+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

Friday, November 28, 2014

Following the World – v2

If we continue,

ignoring the Messiah,

following the world

off the cliff, into the abyss’;

oblivion, away from the covenant,

the commandments, the law,

honoring, with our actions

our lives, forgetting

the promises of God

God’s warning, His judgment

for the sinfulness of man,

the age that was to be

that is to come, destroyed

Only by the grace, by the gifts of Christ

able to turn from the brink,

to step away from the rim

away from the world, its demands

its seduction of wealth, possessions;

false gods, idols that rust,

reconciling us to the Creator

through the conscious choice

the sacrifice of Christ

Following our Savior

to glory, to heaven

not the ways of the world

that leads to destruction

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edited November 28, 2014

Following the World – v2

Black Friday 2014

November 25, 2009

Following the World

Deuteronomy 8:11-20

Sermon, “We are living in a dangerous world”,

by Reverend Huntley Halvorson,

Suncook United Methodist Church

part of

Pembroke – Allenstown Community Thanksgiving Service

http://www.pembrokechurch.org/templates/System/default.asp?id=40672

First Congregational Church of Pembroke

Suncook United Methodist Church,

Suncook, NH

http://www.gccnh.com/

Grace Capital Church,

Concord, NH

http://www.catholicnh.org/directory/index.cfm?intType=1&id=72

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

Allenstown, NH

http://cs.newhampshire.com/blogs/hooksett_editor/archive/2009/11/25/There-are-many-ways-to-make-the-holiday-bright.aspx

Allenstown – Pembroke Interfaith Food Pantry

November 25, 2009

at First Congregational Church of Pembroke

http://www.pembrokechurch.org/templates/System/default.asp?id=40672

Pembroke Street

Pembroke, NH

musings on Black Friday,

http://bfads.net/

http://www.blackfriday.info/

the day after Thanksgiving

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)

November 27, 2009

and the constant selling for school,

Girl Scouts, etc.

http://www.adventconspiracy.org/

Advent Conspiracy

Christ the King Sunday

Luke 6:37-38

Psalm 92:1-4

Hymn: “Come, Ye Thankful People Come”,

by Henry Aford,

United Methodist Hymnal, # 694,

based on Mark 4:26-29 (Parable of the Growing Seeds)

and Matthew 13:36-43 (Parable of the Weeds)

& sermon “Defined by Generosity”

by Reverend Huntley Halvorson

Suncook United Methodist Church

Suncook, NH

November 22, 2009

His sermon is the final of a four-part series based in part on

Reverend Adam Hamilton (http://www.cor.org/about-resurrection/adam/)’s book,

“Enough: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and Generosity” (http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=9781426702334)

Luke 12:15-21

and Psalm 16

and “The Prayer of St. Francis”,

United Methodist Hymnal #481;

and sermon, “I Want It All . . .”,

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/11/sermon-i-want-it-all-by-pastor-ruth-l.html

by Pastor Ruth Foss

sermon blog

meditation blog