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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Without Ceasing

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Pray without ceasing. a sentence in the living word an admonition for a grieving soul a struggling heart, seeking answers a message in t...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

My Cry Came to His Ears

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God heard David’s voice and his cry came to God’s ears His prayer, his call, reached the Creator, the Savior, the Lord, his refuge, and H...
Monday, June 25, 2007

By Grace

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By grace alone we are saved before we have done anything just as He was blessed descended on by the dove before His ministry began Pr...

Your Love Completes Me

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Oh if I could ever really explain the way you complete me How much more I am with you in my life Your love is the part of me that I never...

Those aren't Jimmies

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A living swarm moving earth a colony of ants making the ground quiver with activity June 26, 2007 7:42am photo take 6/24/07 Al...

Helicopters under the Canopy

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They were poised, hooked in their hangers like bats in the cave anchored where they were ready to dive and swoop to circle and spiral ...

Passing the Fruit

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In full summer mode, already after but a day of it under their belts the girls sat in their lawn chairs by the pool tanning in their su...
Sunday, June 24, 2007

Dual Citizens

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Her sermon, speaking on justification by the law, by grace spoke of our dual citizenship, our dual nature, dual heirs with Abraham and ...

Her Voice Above the Rest

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We were in the back of the chapel but her voice rang out, oh so strong almost shouting the words we sometimes mumble, sometimes murmur a...

The Message in the Glass

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She sat beside me in the chapel this morning as her momma began to preach we were in the back, to avoid distracting others, with her fidg...
Saturday, June 23, 2007

A Little Green Beetle

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A quiet ride in the car after the kites were back in the trunk, all buckled in and ready to go on home Suddenly the decibels rose to fev...

A Lily in the Bouquet

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All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All righ...

A Day For Kites

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All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All ri...

Disciplinarian

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The law was the disciplinarian. So I guess I understand more fully the phrase, “throw the book at them” Yes, it was the gate through whic...

Clothed with Christ

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We that have been saved are clothed with Christ coated by the example of the risen Lord, who humbled himself while here on earth who wa...

A Call to Testify

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(not to follow) Oh how he wanted to to become like the twelve followers of the Son to walk with Him; but that was not to be his role,...

Choosing Death

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Demons released from his body, chose death, drowning in the sea over returning to the dark abyss, In death a gift, an act of grace, f...

The Lord’s Exclamation Point

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Let Anyone who has ears [to hear] listen! He said is more than once, to try to get it into, firmly rooted into, our thick skulls, That ...

I Has Gained Everything

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Before you came along, I was sure oh so sure, that I was in control that I could change the world That the world was watching me that I ...

After the Kite Flying

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Spin Practice

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Like twin party favors blown out and back in they furled and unfurled and their skirts swirled from next to one another to full extensi...
Thursday, June 21, 2007

Calm in the Midst of the Stormy Night

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Settling for a few moments sittings still in the midst of the stormy night lightening and thunder held at bay for a few blissful minute...

1st Rainbow of Summer

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All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All righ...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007

So Long 5th Grade; Here I Come Middle School

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All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All righ...

A Christian Lament

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A pastor asked me to think about, write about ponder the decision the change in course inexorably to the edge of the pit staring down i...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Purple and Yellow

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All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All r...

Jacob, I Understand

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A fall on the ice, two plus year ago a concave spot, in my left hip, where it once was convex, a reminder of that fateful fall at the ba...
Monday, June 18, 2007

Sharing Your Word

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Moments together spending time with You in study, in quiet time listening to messages in the holy word, in the sharing of issues, of p...
Sunday, June 17, 2007

Blue Flag

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All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All rig...

A Bee in the Clover

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All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All rig...

Single-Minded

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The urgency of His work reflected in the word of the call the response to the hesitance the excuses of the followers unready for the dem...

What Are You Looking For?

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The words of God, the Son, at the beginning, the start of his earthly ministry After the baptism, near the Jordan. Disciples of the firs...

The Least Among You

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Jesus tells the unvarnished, uncomfortable, awkward truth in a small article of faith Turning the world’s order upside down; applying Go...

Nowhere to Lay His Head

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A homeless prophet in mission to his people, to a broken world. Offering no comfort to those who would join him Be his followers, disci...

A Greater Debt

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An essential lesson was lost by the Pharisee that day Yes she had a greater debt, and poured out her love in full measure; But he too ...

Not Who We Are

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I listen with disbelief at the grim facts our government’s choices to abandon justice for a false belief in security from our acts of t...

Self-Defeated

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By committing acts of terror, by violating due process rights of those accused, held without trials, we are already defeated; The war on...

Torture

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WE don’t torture, once a clear mantra, creed truth about our nation what we would never do No more, no longer rationalize a little viol...

The Fruits of Torture

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We are reaping the whirlwind, the fruits of torture, acts committed in our names A loss of identity, our place in the world compromise,...

Inviolate

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Simple truths, essential truths beliefs held inviolate for our nation to set us apart cast off, dropped underfoot walked upon almost w...

Friendly Fire

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In war, actions can have unintended unwanted consequences, self-inflicted wounds, friendly fire, not just on the battlefield. How much m...

History of the Victors, No More

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It has been said that history isn’t written by who was in the right; but by who was left, after the battles; Filtered by scribes of the c...

We Have Become What we Abhor

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Murderous madmen, willing to abuse, to torture, to inflict pain, indiscriminate heartless, oft calculated Unlike us, held up for ridicul...

Speaking from the Silence

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After mighty wind, the trembling of the earth, a roaring fire. Then audibly, Silence, to fill the prophet with awe. Within the sheer si...

Compromised Authority

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A painful truth is alive in the world We now speak only with compromised authority just another voice, no better and no worse. Violating...

A Great Fanfare

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Like the Son, triumphant in entry into the holy city there were heralds and portents before the presence of God nature itself trumpete...

Fratricide

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Our soldiers in the field, out in the desert sands fighting, killing our brothers. Sons of Ishmael, sons of Isaac all, sons of Abraham, ...

A Year Closer

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We celebrate another turn another year of her life a year closer to more meaningful milestones But even here, the cusp, a moment of clo...

Put on Your Cross

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Like putting on a favorite coat, our glasses a second skin Choosing to subordinate our will and take up our cross daily, that is the Mas...

New Creation

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Metamorphosis, like a snake casting off an old skin, a crab an outgrown shell, or maybe more akin to a caterpillar reborn as a regal ...

Knew No Sin

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Made him to be sin, stained with our blood the read stain of our unfaithfulness, washed over him coloring him a criminal paying our pri...
Friday, June 15, 2007

Faith in Christ

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We hope in the future in the coming of the Lord the end of this age the dawning of the new day, new Jerusalem, new kingdom because we h...

Justified by Grace

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Oh, thank heaven, no, really, thank heaven that we are justified by grace, not as an excuse, or a get out of jail free card; but as a ...

The Works of the Law

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Living by the law, dying because of the failings impossibilities of perfection of never straying, never stumbling never faltering, even ...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

Sons of Abraham

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Ishmael, oh Ishmael set down the rock Isaac, oh Isaac drop your sword. For as you do, so do your sons to the thousandth generation a...
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

If Only

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If only we had a different vision of inclusion; where exclusion remains, testing, barring others from their call. Wouldn’t we be bet...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Her Sister’s Dress

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She wore her sister’s dress again this time to her graduation the same dress, her sister wore to start her school year two years ago ma...