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Thursday, November 15, 2007

A Star

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The pinprick in the dome a star shedding heavens light down onto the suddenly changed world a darkness lifted in the birthing the creation o...

In the Time of King Herod

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It was in Herod’s time, when the world changed for all time and everywhere a babe was born, heralded by angels bowed down to by sheph...

By that Singular Star

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Guided by the start, at its rising, at the moment of his birth a singular star, blazing with the Creator’s joy the birthing of His Son, inca...

Presents for the King

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Wise men three on bended knee brought the baby gifts precious gifts for a King They followed a holy star that brought them from very f...
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Saturday, November 10, 2007

Abraham’s Children

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Like the tax collector we are all Abraham’s children children of the promise of the savior, of the creator sheep in the flock, shepherds for...

Abraham’s Son

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A blessing cured him his estrangement wiped clean He was Abraham’s son his breached sealed in his service, his humility His love for his nei...

Saints

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Touching our lives, setting an example a way of living out the commandments for us to follow and to model for those who follow us ourselves ...

Blessed are You

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A personal, specific, individual blessing, you are blessed You, I, blessed by the Savior affirming God’s favor, directly, personally, intima...

Think deeply

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Ponder and thought or so we ought rather than blurt and bluster which can make others fluster well, enough of the rhyme at least to put my m...

Vertebrate

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Nothing so much as a beautiful exposed skeleton, standing tall, all erect so were the stately trees, going down the hill heading for home on...

The There Gene

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Oh, my mistake, on correcting the paper the “there” needs to be a “their”; but I forgot, you have the there gene. A block, glitch, a predile...
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Friday, November 09, 2007

When She Said Yes

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What a change a single word spoken with a smile has had on my life changing a man to a father a father of three precious girls each a w...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Each Day

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Each and every day of our lives here on earth a gift from the creator to learn and share, to grow find purpose, and meaning to see new horiz...

Leaves after a rain

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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...
Monday, November 05, 2007

Pumpkinheads

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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...
Sunday, November 04, 2007

Sermon - "Glass Houses", given by Ruth L. Foss, Sanbornville United Methodist Church, Wakefield, NH, October 28, 2007

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How many of you have heard the old expression “people who live in glass houses should not throw stones”? Boy…that was one of my mother’s fav...

Sermon - "Do It as Unto the Lord", given by Ruth L. Foss, Wesley United Methodist Church, Concord, NH, October 21, 2007

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The Scripture reading today from Timothy reminds me of my childhood. My parents and family taught me so many things. They taught me how to w...

To the Laborers Told

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Wake the neighbors, tell the children; tell all the people, or so you would expect for this special, singular news The birth of the Messiah,...

The Birth Announcement

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There is was, out of the mouths of angels the announcement, the birth of the Savior, the Lord, born on Earth They were the ones, to hear the...
Saturday, November 03, 2007

That Smile

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There it was, once again melting my heart, a puddle of goo, no longer thinking of the day ahead Shy, sly, sneak up on you smile from do...
Thursday, November 01, 2007

A Peasant amid the Royalty

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A single brown oak leave perched in the purple chrysanthemums in the window box outside the back door A peasant drawing attention, pulling t...

Stories

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So many stories, many of pain on the faces, in the eyes, the furtive eyes, the postures, the countenance of the people waiting for their...

Babushka

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She was walking on the sidewalk just around the corner from home, from her place here is the city so much a woman of her place her piece...

Black Velour

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He sat quietly, patiently it seemed wrapped in black velour new purchase, or at least well maintained Sitting, up on the box from his sho...

Shafts of Light

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Faint shafts of light falling down from the grey, milky sky ribbons of a lighter grey, almost white cutting through the pillowed clouds laye...

Faded Glory

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Flapping in the cold wind the grey skies, the feel of winter so soon the flagpole out of the small house held tightly against the blast a fl...

The Wind out my Window

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The oak tree’s leaves didn’t stand a chance under the glowering gray sky today they were more than just rustling though they did seem to get...

By Our Deeds

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The Spirit, inscribed on our hearts finds shape, manifested, given life by our deeds. We become in those moments of love God incarnate, livi...

Tethered Dancer

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Her pirouette caught, held captive spinning around the invisible cord her arms akimbo, bent up to her chin her leg, toes pointed to th...

God Incarnate

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No merely the baby, every offspring, every child with the Spirit within us God incarnate through our actions, not our first birth showing Go...

Incarnation

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The child in the manger, the baby in the mother’s arms, the saints all around us each a member of the family a bit of God here with us in th...
Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Dress up Pumpkins

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pumpkins in polar fleece, watching television, courtesy of Shyanne, 10/31/07
Monday, October 29, 2007

exploding neural pathways

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random connection to long forgotten facts scraps of thoughts deep within my consciousness triggered by a word, a conversation, music, talk o...
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Author of Heaven and Earth

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Not merely Creator, if that makes sense, because a creator makes something, often from other parts, pieces, puts things together in new and ...

Their Eyes Opened

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In the same sharing of the bread, His blessing, His breaking of the bread, an epiphany a revelation that they were in the presence of, ...

Opening the Scriptures

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The risen Lord, walking with them opening the scriptures, explaining them clearing the mysteries, the true meaning the fulfillment, His s...
Sunday, October 28, 2007

Feed My Sheep

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Follow me, and feed my sheep the Master to the Rock a sheep made a shepherd, the seed planted to germinate within him until the seed beg...

Freedom to Choose

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Unique to man, alone in the animal world the freedom to choose, to make your own path to set priorities, to chart what is important where yo...
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Chasing Emily

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When I started, a little more than a year ago, I had no idea, no thought, that I would be chasing Emily hurtling inexplicably to the place I...
Saturday, October 27, 2007

Gaining Joy

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In the communion, the sharing in the chapel giving our confession to God, our sin revealed, out loud confessing to God and, in so doing...

Into the Chapel

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A bit of quiet time me and God, away from the others spending time, listening mostly amidst the prayers and thoughts swirling in my mind...

A Seriously Wet Saturday

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Shy and Shane sat watching the rain a duck waddled by our window pane There was no sun, not anywhere The fan and the rain, called us in time...

Hearts Burning

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On the walk, that ancient road, walking with our savior, I felt the same, as Cleopas and his companion, hearing His voice, in the words o...

Pastoral Spiritual Formation

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A deepening understanding, breathing in the word lesson by lesson, example by example, in parable and in service. Showing all of the law, al...

Humbling Himself

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His head to the floor, his heart begging for forgiveness, fully aware of his sin, his need for God, because he could not make himself holy O...

Humble Before the Lord

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He bowed, weighed down by his breach his sin, before God, bowing low begging the creator, for forgiveness of his sin, to be made clean himse...

Naked Before God

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We stand, we all stand, naked before God, exposed as surely as they were in the Garden, after the fall standing before God, in our imperfect...

Like Job

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Like Job he stood, a man without blemish by the rules of the law, the law of the people doing what was asked of him, to stand righteous righ...

Through the Motions

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Tithing, fasting, praying in the temple so were the steps of the sinner before the altar, the throne of God; but he failed to see his sin, t...

Naked in a Glass House

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His false piety, summed up in his certainty of his own standing, earning a ticket to joy judging others in the temple, in the courts by the ...

He is Risen

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Like Elijah, so was His rising He was risen from the dead the man who was Jesus, the teacher to the apostles, He was risen indeed ascending ...

Like Saul

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A righteous man, or so he thought he was doing the work of the law, the steps he was told to take written in the black and white, the langua...

Bringing the House Down

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The house he dwelled in a house of cards, of glass Picking up the rock, and bringing the house down crashing down, around himself standing a...

For One of the Least of These

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Moments of kindness, of charity, sometimes within really thinking for these will we stand before God of so is the message the Lord gave the ...

Being a Sheep

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In a world of free will, of choices we can make make me a sheep, bending to Your will, not my own hearing, knowing Your voice doing what You...

A Precious Little Baby

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And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was o...
Friday, October 26, 2007

On the Road to Emmaus

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A week ago, I was on that ancient road walking with my brothers, with our Brother hearing His voice, feeling His presence His Father’s gr...

United Methodist History

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The saints before us, toiling in the vineyard out in the pastures, on the rocky mountains, in the villages and cities, bringing a Wesleyan t...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Pearls in the Heart

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A Single pearl water caught in the heart of the lupin, a pearl, a cluster of drops much like a pearl in the ocean, grown over time, gathered...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Hebrew Bible

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Their Hebrew Bible course, was from the original source the text written in His face spoken from His lips made flesh in His body, the path H...

The Joy of Sox

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Check out - http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/ , a Blog of Note, for Red Sox Nation

Becoming Ministers

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We are all to be His ministers a royal priesthood of all the saints each commissioned to do the Master’s will to go out into the world and p...

Church History

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A very different spin on church history so was that walk that day a history in the person of the Lord showing for His companions the ful...

Commissioning

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Get on with the work Here is the power, I have given you Go forth and be my feet with me inside you, burning strong Tell the story to all th...

Final Exams

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Let’s see, what were those courses in our seminary this semester Oh yeah, they were Betrayal, abandonment, death, and resurrection At the en...

Ordination

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Wow! Can you imagine graduation day just like that! Flames of the Spirit piercing you, giving you power, authority Tongues of flames giving ...

Seminary

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He was their seminary their rigorous, personalize training more than apprentices, they were getting the first-person account of the greatest...

Studying the Word

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The apostles at His feet, learning from God, directly Studying with, under Jesus, while he lived, walked with them Hearing His message, His ...

Praying for His Voice

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Lord, in my hearing, let me hear His voice rising up through the words of my brothers speaking, sharing, testifying to me; but let it be You...

God Breathed

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Before Christ lived on the earth God breathed and the Word was born the Word of God breathed into life just as His breath gave us life Holy ...

Prayers for a Change in My Heart

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Over and over, I knelt, fell to my knees, gave myself to You, Lord tears pouring from my eyes, shaking with Your Spirit immersed in Your lov...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Prayers for Our Hearing

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Wanting to meet You in the words shared among us; to meet you on the road on the pilgrimage we were walking the journey lighter for the shar...

Like a White Hot Coal

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You were burning within me pouring over me, wave after wave of joy, of repentance, of grace heaped on me, filling me whole Oh I am so glad Y...

Where Is Your Bucket

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I remember so clearly, the woman at the well challenging the One with immediate questions, thinking in the now, what she wanted, asked for w...

Seeing the Invisible

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The wind gave an abject lesson this afternoon of the parables, the means of grace, all around us, if we but see the invisible is made known,...

Authentic Prayer - sermon by Ray Foss for Basic Lay Speaker class, September 29, 2007, Warren United Methodist Church

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The passage from 1st Timothy 2:1-7, is a rich piece of scripture, because it speaks of the need to pray, so as to be at peace with the world...

Baptism of the Holy Spirit

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Would that each of us would feel the power, that epiphany that moment with flames on that day of Pentecost But with fire or with water, ...

Their Hands on the Cross

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With eyes on the prize, the gifts hearts in the right place, and their hands on the cross we met the son, our brother, Jesus walked with us,...

Intertwined Roots

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Like giant redwoods, with interlocked roots we are held up, against the winds by the community of faith, our brothers our sisters, our famil...

Means of Grace

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We are blind, too often to the means of grace the ways God makes himself visible to us, in the current age in this slice of earth we call ho...

Obstacles to Grace

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Alienation is our separation from God and Man Loving ourselves more than God Ignoring God’s call for our lives Envy, or pride, or falseho...

Sin

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Separated from I Am and our Neighbor October 20, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007

Learning for Life

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We grow or die, in our faith, in life we learn and grow, through study But there is no magic cure, no shortcut Growth comes from beginning C...

Grace Abounds

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Grace abounds in the stars that shine in the touch of a baby’s hand throughout our world and in the life of faith We see God and feel His gr...

Open Your Eyes

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Open your eyes and look around for in everything and everywhere grace abounds, in the natural world within the community of faith in the lov...

Will You Let Him In

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He is waiting, patiently at the door of your heart He as knocked, once again Will you let Him in, accepting God into your life fostering a r...

Piety

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Pray to our God Inquire on the truth in His Word Every day meditate on your life with God Take time to worship in your church Yearn to commu...

When He Knocks

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When He knocks, when you hear his voice on the outside of the door the outside of your life, your heart Open the door accept His love, His h...

Open Your Heart

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Open your heart to the calling of God listen for His call to you still yourself, from the noise of today open your heart for a change in you...

A Recipe for a Life of Piety*

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An epiphany of awareness an overflowing desire to know You will to bear fruit worthy of Your grace direction to stay focused on Christ a hea...

Opening the Door

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It is a moment, an instant of grace, transforming us in that very second when we accept the offer the free gift and open the door Let the gi...

Accepting God

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Justified not by works. So is the basis of our creed. Only by accepting God, his agape love, are we justified Changed in a twinkling, as if ...

God’s Hands, Your Feet

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God’s hands are your hands your feet are His feet In this time and place, the infinite is made real, through us, through what we do God’s lo...

Living Stones

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Odd and misshapen living stones, joined together building the foundation, the walls, of Your temple, Your holy church We are each, as we are...

Because the Father Cried

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It was in His tears, the tears of the loving father that he was saved, in the pain he caused the father that he was forever changed. Moving ...

A Bridge to God

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Christ is the bridge to God through His sacrifice the chasm is spanned the breach sealed for all time A way is made clear we walk that bridg...

Royal Priests

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Step on up, each one of you you, yes you, are called, invited to be transformed and to be an instrument of transformation to accept the gift...

Coming up Beside Me

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Joy walked with me on this dusty road, walking with my brothers we walked with Him with our brother Jesus living with us in community being ...

Being a Priest

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By actions more than words we live out the blessings the title we are given All of us are heirs, all members of the royal priesthood By our ...

A Heart-Shaped Hole

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For each of us there is a specific, a singular heart-shaped hole in our lives A hole which only He can fill when we try, we fail nothing els...