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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Her Picture With Me

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Before the bag is packed, a bit of work to do, to prepare myself for this time away, this time for study for meditation, for prayer A time t...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Trumpets of Glory

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Unworthy

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Lord, I wandered in the wilderness You saved me even though I am a sinner I stayed away from your church, You saved me even though I am a si...

The Apostle's Creed

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Our church is using a book, "The Apostle's Creed for Today, by Justo L. Gonzalez, as the basis for our Fall Neighborhood Groups. Ba...

The Holy Catholic Church

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One church, universal, inclusive and loving, even when we try to separate and judge one another. I believe in the catholic church and ou...

Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth

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All powerful, above all, the one from the beginning before the beginning of time, ever present, to the end of the age This is the God in whi...

At the Right Hand of God

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The Son, the holy Word seated at the right hand of the Father, the Creator A way of understanding the relationship, the single entity the be...

Seated at the Right Hand

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I can picture the temple of the Lord the home of God and his courts to see the throne of God, to touch the hem of His robe to talk with the ...

Conceived of the Holy Spirit Born of the Virgin Mary

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The sublime mystery of faith the one way He could have come into the world to be wholly human, truly divine the Word made flesh, by the Spir...

Sterilizing

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Source, Word and Holy Spirit Three things, dry, lifeless words; but Meaningful words, of faith trying to explain the wholeness of the one th...

Jesus Christ His Only Son Our Lord

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Jesus of Nazareth, is the Christ, the Messiah the one Son of God, the incarnation of the one God the image of God made man, the love of God,...

I Believe in God the Father

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He is the creator, the eternal father the one there at the beginning, before the beginning the one there who stilled the chaos, who conjured...

Suffered under Pontius Pilate

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The human Christ, the king on earth a servant, a sacrifice, after the transfiguration on the mountainside the prayers in the Garden the cup ...

Functionalizing

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Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer Names of the Trinity avoiding the patronymic the male language that separates many from God the loaded language...

Crucified

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The fact, the truth, the certainty of the pain, the shame, the depth of the cross, the crucifixion of our Lord. His death for our sins. The ...

On the Third Day

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After darkness, confusion, loss we arise, He arose on the third day The morning when Death lost its sting No longer the irreversible truth t...

He Will Come Again

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The fulfillment of the scripture is not yet done for He will come again That is the promise, the hope for us all That He will come agai...

Paternalizing

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Father, Son, Holy Ghost, Three Guys, for many, three white guys, sitting in judgment, patriarchs with beards, flowing beards, without a reco...

I Believe in the Holy Spirit

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I believe, I have seen, I have witnesses the Holy Spirit, alive, living in me, in answer to prayer, in calling me to testify, in the fing...

He Rose Again

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Easter morning, oh Easter morning We praise you Father, God in heaven for that morning, when our sackcloth, our mourning clothes, gave way t...

Ascended into Heaven

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He, the Christ, Jesus, the very same, ascended into Heaven Glorious Day! On the wings of the cloud He rose beyond sight beyond comprehension...

To Judge the Living and the Dead

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When He comes again, it will be with the fanfare, the trumpets, the fury, the wonder that the people expected the last time, when He came as...

The Communion of Saints

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The fellowship of believers throughout the thread of time woven together into one tapestry, the face of God to man We are part of a sacred w...

Dead

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Dead, cold, without life a beating heart stilled laid down in the tomb the blackness sealed about him the stone rolled into place cemen...

He is Coming to Judge

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We don’t always want to remember this part of our creed, the part with the judging, for while all are called, no all answer, and not all who...

Buried

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Oh Joseph, where would my Savior be without your stone tomb, where would He have been laid down if you were not there? He died on the cross,...

Life Everlasting

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At the beginning was God, at the end communion with God life everlasting, in the kingdom the kingdom of God eternal home, eternal rest waiti...

The Resurrection of the Body

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As He rose, as himself, his body, so we will rise, as pure, holy, versions of ourselves At the final day, the end of the season, the harvest...

The Forgiveness of Sin

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The washing away, the cleaning whiter than white, purer than pure beyond comprehension; We will be forgiven! all our sins, all our failings ...

He Descended to the Dead

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Wrapped in the clothing, the apparel of the dead He descended to the Dead down to Sheol He was before his rising the rejection, the triumph ...

Trinitarian

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Three in one the trinity, a triangle giving the thought the mystery dimension, depth meaning, in the symbol the interrelatedness the whole, ...

A Patience Flower

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An abject lesson in patience is the flower outside our doorway planted when the spring was young watered, tended, nurtured through the sprin...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Feeling Her Hug

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Feeling her hug against me, so quick, so sudden, so real for me a moment to treasure, repeated often at the corner moments of closeness of g...

Beam Walker

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Like any good gymnast, she holds her arms just so straight and taut walking oh so carefully, at least the first few feet on the edge of the ...

Skipping to School

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Little hands holding mine skipping to school. All three of us Matching strides, and the all-important swinging of the arms down the sidewalk...

A Cranberry Maple

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Nothing other than cranberry, well, maybe candy apple, could describe the maple on the corner Ablaze in saturated red deep, almost burgundy,...

Catching the Wind

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The morning glories, in afternoon glory shining in the bright fall sun luminescent, transparent, translucent colors bleeding through their s...

Choosing Our Words

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So easy to say things that will hurt to cut down when we should lift up to judge to quickly, blurt out a thought choose our words wisely for...
Monday, October 15, 2007

Blog Action Day - A Hammer Blow to the Ice

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Maybe the metaphor shouldn’t be pebbles thrown into the pond; maybe the more apt analogy the hope, and the trepidation is the idea of a hamm...

Blog Action Day - Ripples on the Water

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A rock thrown in the pond, full force, or maybe, just maybe, thousands of pebbles, hurled, dropped, even gently coaxed into the water ri...
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In Exile

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What does it mean to be in exile, when there is no foreign army no conquering horde coming over the battlements when the season of exile is ...

Teach Good Writing

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The post, "Embrace All of Life" has a comment relating to the site, "Students Publish Here" Here is that site's firs...

Blog Action Day - United for Change

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A common theme a single voice people united for change for the planet Speaking on message for a day at least remembering the earth u...

“In It for the Long Haul” - sermon by Ruth L. Foss, Sanbornville United Methodist Church, October 14, 2007

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Jeremiah 29: 1, 4-7 Have you ever been at a place in your life when you felt all alone? You are in this desert place and feel that you are o...
Sunday, October 14, 2007

Anger or Acceptance

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An exile in Babylon, first of the leaders, to avoid rebellion, later all of the people. A psalm of anger, of hurt of bitter lament, of raili...

A Message of Acceptance

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A letter to the people, his people in exile, of acceptance to their lot, this season in exile, as willed by the creator. To make the most of...

Embrace All of Life

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Even in exile, in that time of trial, that struggle far from our comfort zone far from home and safety, we are to embrace all of life th...
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On the Brink

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On the brink, the edge, the maw of the pit, the edge of the precipice, looking down into the abyss Okay, so maybe we can rationalize away a ...

A Reckless Disregard

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Mankind, blind to its own ambitions, its own desires, blind to the consequences global consequences to our choices our hubris, leading to a ...

Danger, Thin Ice

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In hearing the stories about the ice sheet up in the arctic, on Greenland on the ice shelves on the bottom of the globe talk of ice thinner ...

Appropriate Praise

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The lepers, the exiles, needed to make appropriate praise to the Lord, for their saving even in their exile, their disease they were to give...

Gumdrop Maples

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Like nothing other than gumdrops the rounded tops of the colorful maples adorned the side of the street on our drive to church this morni...
Saturday, October 13, 2007

The Meaning of Being Clean

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They were outsiders, just as the foreigner unclean, by their sins, unable barred from the fellowship from the temple in the outer darkness n...

Prostrated

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The foreigner, the outsider again the means a lesson for the people, the disciples with Him those who could not see forgetful, blind The for...

OMNI

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Omniscient OMnipresent OmNnipotent I Am October 12, 2007 10:12pm

Increase Your Number

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Wherever you are, even in a time of exile, of trial, of struggle of wandering in the wilderness wherever you are3, called to increase our nu...

Resident Aliens

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A people in a foreign land resident aliens, making homes, lives histories away from their homeland Living out their days those of their chil...

Do Not Decrease

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Even in exile, in captivity, in prison in a foreign land we are to stand true, to be faithful to be strong, to hold tightly to our faith in ...

Multiply There

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For the chosen people the people of the first covenant the covenant of blood told by God, to multiply in their time of exile to multiply the...

Living in the Foreign Land

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More than making the most the best of a bad situation No this was more than that This was a letter from the prophet proclaiming the will, th...

Into the Foreign Land

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They were sent, sent by God sent into a foreign land using a foreign people to chasten, to refine His people for their lack of faith, their ...

A Letter from Home

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Before the final fall of the kingdom the home of the king, the Temple of God A message of hope, a call to sincere faith of the struggle to c...
Friday, October 12, 2007

Into the Potter’s House

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Walking into the house of the skilled potter, the maker of vessels for the stuff of life for water and grain for wine and for keeping ...
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Not the Tabernacle

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Not the tent. the brick, the stone, the wood, a foundation, walls, maybe even plumbing, if we bring the story to the present day There was a...

His Words

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Lord, I ask, I pray The words in the poems the words I put onto the page the lines of text, their precision their beauty, their meanings...

Powerful Videos = The Potter's House

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Powerful Videos - especially "Are You Ready", "Behold" and "Watch and Pray", at http://www.pottershouse.com/do...

Planet in Peril - CNN

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http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/planet.in.peril/

Planetary Emergency

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Life as we know it hangs in the balance if the predictions, the fear, come to pass, if the ice vanishes and the seas rise if the wind blows ...
Thursday, October 11, 2007

So Far to Go

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Yes, we have far to go so far to go in this world, in this country, in the work of the Savior, to spread love to all our neighbors, to b...
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Calm

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In a lot of ways that was the greatest compliment I could have been given at that moment in that place standing before the judge, telling th...

Cutting Through the Tension

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Oh to take down, the Sword of Damocles, and cut the tension from the air, to slice the stress render it moot, lifeless would have been glori...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Gilbert Doesn’t Have to Go to School

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Tom can get the cash, and Gilbert doesn’t have to go to that public school first. October 10, 2007 11:54am “PER CURIAM. The judgment is affi...

A Noisy World

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Can you picture the world, following the command in the scripture page Do you hear the world making that joyful noise are the colors loud en...

Words of the Apostles

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Words of the Apostles handed down through time from the earliest trials to the latest age a creed of our beliefs shared over the millennia c...
Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Donning His Sandals

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When you look down what do you see, regardless of what you are wearing. Do you see the Master’s feet; are you wearing His sandals tod...
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For the Long Haul

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Like Israel, we are in it, for the long haul; the coming of the Messiah the second coming, like their return from exile, unknown to us, mere...

A Joyful Noise

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A grateful relief is the scripture, to make a joyful noise How wonderful, for me, if not for the others around me in worship that the K...

Morning Glories

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Healed by God

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Ten were sent to the priests to be made clean but one was healed, saved of his sins by returning and praising God, who had healed him ...

Praying for Babylon

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A stark, surprising message from the prophet this day, to settle down and live, within captivity; the foreign land to pray for Babylon while...
Monday, October 08, 2007

A Smile at the Kitchen Table

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There was a smile waiting for me on my arrival, taking a break a smile waiting for me at the kitchen table a smile of spicy brown mustard on...

Telling the Teacher

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A family story of my need for a mommy and a teacher, to be distinct and separate from one another Talking with my mommy all the way to ...
Sunday, October 07, 2007

Faith is Now

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Increase our faith was the plea; but they misunderstood the nature of faith the faith of Abraham, of true believers Faith is now, in t...

Be More Loving

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Be more loving, by loving more, be more faithful by living your faith, grow in faith by acting in faith outside our comfort zone test...

Use the Faith You Have

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The disciples, before the passion, asking for more faith. Not understanding, yet appreciating the faith deep within their hearts the fai...

Faith Like Muscle

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Like living growing muscle so is our faith growing by use, by testing, by struggle and strain building faith like muscle in the doing, ...

Red Sumac

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A field, not a forest of swaying red of red sumac, warming from yellow to red in the fall air warming in the mid-morning sun red blood...

Rekindle the Gift of God

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Each day is a new day, another day given for us to choose how to use it for good or for ill for fallow of harvest Use each day to reki...

A Treasure of Faith

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We are all carrying, in our hearts a treasure of faith, rich, good treasure which cannot be taken, not like ephemeral goods this treasure...

Guard the Good Treasure

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We are to guard the good treasure the gift of faith handed down to us by those faithful who went before us those living their faith; those w...

Not According to Our Works

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Thank you God, that I am not destined to be measured by my works, that I will not have to weigh, my good and bad karma, to fashion a further...

Suffering for the Gospel

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Paul is calling us, pleading with us to be who we can be, in service to the calling the Great Commission, whatever the cost to preach and...

Spirit of Self-Discipline

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We are given a spirit of self-discipline or so Paul would have us believe, a spirit to lead the life we are called to live not for its own r...

Spirit of Love

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By God’s grace we are saved a gift of love, poured out in the blood the blood of the Lamb, the Son of the Creator. A love living within our ...

Spirit of Power

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Not a spirit of cowardice, oh no. We are not of such stuff a spirit of power, of authority a voice given to us, to preach, to proclaim, to s...