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Saturday, April 26, 2008

Stewards

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We are to be stewards, trustees, missionaries cherishing that which we have, responsible for their maintenance, for spreading the word of th...

In My Brother’s Eyes

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I saw Christ, the love of the savior in my brother’s eyes, sharing the supper deeply moved, the intimacy of being the ones to give the bread...
Friday, April 25, 2008

Lifting Her Up

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These few days, days apart while she is on this journey this road I have walked praying constantly, my mind racing ahead remembering the jew...

We Said a Prayer

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The three of us, laying on the floor, hands clasped together joining others in prayer praying for the women on the journey, on the walk Pray...

How was Your Hike

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It must have been quite a hike, in April, late winter this year or so the question went for some who went on the Walk to Emmaus Not understa...

How Will She be Different

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I wonder, just what this will mean to her, to her walk with Christ to her sense of her call, her purpose her part to play in the work of ...

Staring at the Cross

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in the stillness of the sanctuary my head bowed in prayer, but still I could see your cross, beams of light shining on the wood, radiating o...

Passing the Cup

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Like the towel, the basin the foot washing We shared the bread, the wine, intimate sharing, disciple to disciple intoning the words of our f...

Quiet

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Complete silence, quiet in the sanctuary lights dimmed and heart rates slowed heads bowed in silent, singular, personal prayer hushed words ...

Exposed

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Brutal honesty, to ourselves mainly opening wounds, covered, buried exposing them to the light, to his grace to put them behind us, to lay ...

Washing Feet

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In the chapel, the community came together the disciples, all of us disciples slowing down, after the rush to arrive But we stopped, to foll...

A Skim of Yellow

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Yellow dust, a patina of pollen covering the cars below the ancient oak planted long before the city grew, the alley was cut between the ten...

Daily Grace of God

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We are blessed, by the daily grace of God little moments of wonder, of joy means of grace abound, surround us enliven our days with amazemen...

Friends I’ll Never Know

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A wide open world, the ether, the web, the connectedness the world so small, touching so many lives friends I will never know finding me in ...

Shanequa's Indian

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2,500 poems

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There are now over 2,500 original poems on the blog.

Claimed by God - 2

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We are his, his sheep in his pasture the green pastures in which he calls us to dwell We are the words of his hands, the living clay of the ...

Count our Days

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Lord, teach us your ways, to count our days We are fleeting, like a blade of grass but we have days to live to truly live in you in the sun ...

The Eternity of God

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Before the beginning, before the world, the land, the void ordered, you were there, our refuge our creator, in your creation we are but gras...

Like a Sigh

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Our days, ending like a sigh in an instance, this life ends suddenly, without warning the last breath scripted by another nothing of our com...

The Evanescence of Grass

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Our lives fleeting, illusory like the days of a blade of grass needing water, needing light withering in time, fading away we are as grass G...

When is Love Charity

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A richer meaning of the love chapter, or so it is called, the meaning of love revealed perhaps a little more clearly when the translation is...

Move or Remove

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The power to move mountains or the power to remove mountains such is the power compared juxtaposed with love, with charity totally different...

Leaving the World Behind

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Off the grid, no watch, no phone leaving the world behind entering this holy ground a cloistered space, community fellowship of believer...

Faithful Prayers

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Around the clock, coming together around the community faithful prayers, lifting up the pilgrims, the team prayers for their being set ap...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

Letters of Love

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Letters of love, on their way, written for you, for your strength, for your faithfulness, your commitment to the call the call God have g...

Walking Home

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The story doesn’t expressly say, but they appeared to be walking home despondent perhaps, sad certainly, confused or so said by all that ...

In the Jordan

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The story began anew, the steps of fulfillment immediately revealed, the ancient text alive in the Jordan, where he was baptized An anointin...

A Stranger No More

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He walked beside us; but we didn’t know him beside up on that road home we didn’t recognize him, not while he spoke not while we talked o...

More Mary than Martha

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Oh she can do the whole housekeeping thing, the cooking, the cleaning, the busy bustle of life But she would happily sit at the Master’s fee...

She Carried with Her

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She carried with her the affirmation of a congregation the approval of a committee an appointment to serve and the prayers of a multitud...

My Prayer for You on Your Journey

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Oh I pray for you, that you would find Christ anew that these days would be a rich blessing that you would feel the presence of our creato...

Praying for Their Journey

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Prayers rising up to our Father’s ear in heaven for their journey, their walk That they would find our risen savior on that old, ancient...

With Life Giving Water

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The dry soil gave way allowing the perennials to push up to through when life giving water was added to the dry ground The garden became gre...

The Gardener

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The loving hands of the gardener adding water, sunshine, rich fertile soil to nourish, nurture, grow the seeds plants by his hands giving th...

With a Little Water

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With a little water, the garden sprang to life green shoots burst through the newly loosened soil a little water and good soil, a wealth of ...

In the Days of Darkness

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Like the flash of light, God was in the days of darkness, the prayer and fasting in his cell in Damascus God was there, in the heart of Saul...

In the Flash of Light

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God was there, in the brilliant flash of light in the booming voice from on high speaking to His tormented, persecutor of His disciples blin...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

A Kiss in the Sanctuary

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The day was sealed with a kiss in the sanctuary, as if the pastor could have stopped us. “You may kiss the bride” never more unnecessary Eag...

A December Morning

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Walking carefully onto the stone bridge snow and ice on the path We stood together in our finery our three daughters with us The words of lo...

The Love Chapter

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Speaking of love, special sacrificial love charity, servanthood in our hearts cherishing another, truly Her voice rising, reading these holy...

Junior Bridesmaid

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A little older, a little more mature not like her younger sisters that day She was with mom, up in the front of the sanctuary standing with ...

Petals in Their Hands

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Shyanne and Shanequa, then still four and three practiced scene stealers, carrying adorned baskets of the rose petals, bouquets we had given...

Tropical Sunrise

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There was something so very different so far from my ken, my experience sharing a tropical sunrise with her with my beautiful wife, alone on...

Our Island

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For a few days, wonderful days this was our island, a refuge, a retreat escape from the day to day, a warm, tropical wondrous place, so diff...

Our Beach

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The windward island, southern end, easterly beach early in the morning, before the hotel stirred pool chairs turned to the waking sky holdin...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Waiting for the Bride

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She was a little late for the service, for the wedding lucky for me, we were already wed This day for the church, before God, our family But...
Monday, April 21, 2008

Sermon by Pastor Ruth L. Foss, “Where Does The Story End?”, Sanbornville, United Methodist Church, Wakefield, NH, March 23, 2008, Easter Sunday

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John 20: 1-18 It’s Easter Sunday!!! Christ is Risen! (He is Risen indeed!). This is my most favorite day in the Christian Calendar. It is ...

Sermon given by Pastor Ruth L. Foss, “Can I have A Do Over?”, Sanbornville United Methodist Church, Wakefield, NH, March 9, 2008

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Ezekiel 37:1-14 How many of you ever wanted to have a do over? You realize that you could have done something a different way or ac...

Sermon given by Pastor Ruth L. Foss, “Was Blind But Now I See”, Sanbornville United Methodist Church, April 6, 2008

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Luke 24: 13-35 Have you ever passed by something a hundred times and all of the sudden it looks different to you? Has anyone ever said to ...

Sermon given by Pastor Ruth L. Foss, “Get a Piece of the Rock”, Sanbornville UMC, April 20, 2008

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1 Peter 2:2-10 How many of you remember that old Prudential Insurance commercial? There was this beautiful background scenery of mountains...

The Pastor’s (wife) Husband

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Standing beside her, before the congregation feeling their love for her washing over me, in reflection hearing his voice saying it was unani...

Words that Heal, that Challenge, that Guide

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The words rolled off the page, off her tongue oh so familiar joyous words words of the scriptures, ancient and alive for us in the congre...

The Parts of the Body

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It doesn’t matter which part we are what role we each play in the body, the church the living person of Christ together doing the Master’s w...

All Are Needed

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We are the eyes, the nose, the fingers, the body of the church, the body of Christ each church, in its place a role to play, each one of us,...

All Parts

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Without each other, parts parts of a puzzle, clear in completion only each a member, valuable, needed finding purpose in the word, in the li...

An Affirmation

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Joy welled up, filled our cups to overflowing a day long sought after, Being affirmed by our family of faith in the sanctuary, in communi...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Before the Congregation

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Another hurdle, a step on the path to ministry, to her calling They met in the sanctuary, somber, orderly But joy was in the offing, in the ...
Saturday, April 19, 2008

Glorified in Betrayal

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The Son, the Father, glorified in the act of betrayal betrayal by the Judas His life transformed, fulfillment of the prophesy his life a sac...

Intellectually Disabled

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“Retard!” That was the cutting word they would call him Cut him to the quick Different enough, without the words mentally retarded, or so he...

A Swimmer’s Hump

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His most defining feature a swimmer’s hump years of the butterfly practice after practice supple muscle, an arch to his back long after he l...

A Bassett out the Window

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An old valued friend, riding in the front seat brown and white, chin turning grey hanging out the black pickup standing on the door’s window...

An Empty Field

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Brown-yellow long grasses rising again, after the weight of the snow gone away for another year an empty fallow field ringed by young white ...

Transparent Leaves

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Skeletons, transparent leaves of last season, still hanging on the maple’s branches soon to fall to earth as buds burst into life Echoes of ...

A Clump of Daffodils

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A clump of daffodils cups of bright canary atop their swaying stems rising from the gray-brown mulch green and yellow, renewal of this sprin...

Sudden Forsythia

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Forsythia, yellow bush aflame springtime bursting into sudden bloom Memories of my childhood home the taste of the yellow petals their feel ...

Red over White

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A hillside, white birch, maples, poplar red patina, wash overlaid over the white, the gray buds erupting, a hillside ablaze in the awakening...

A Flock of Turkeys

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Up on the ridge line the farthest part of the hill a flock of turkeys eating in the grass Out of place, in the city, unexpected Wild things,...

For Affect Alone

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He took a quick puff as he walked along headphones on, a quick puff not really breathing in for affect alone the cigarette hung by his side ...

Everyday Gifts

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Treasures of the king given to us, without merit, not earned gifts of grace, each day, given to us by the creator for our blessing, our cup ...

Ordinary Grace

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Each moment, each thought, each image before our eyes magical seconds, instances of time revelations of God’s grace present now, all around ...

Which is the Holy Ground

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Which is the holy ground, when is the ground holy a place to take off my sandals, to walk barefoot on holy ground We miss so much, limitin...

The Road was Holy Ground

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That road, holy ground where they walked with the risen savior our Lord, our brother, the stranger In his presence, with the father, the ...

Holy Ground

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The Lord called where he walked holy ground But all the ground is holy, where we each walk oh take off your sandals, feel the earth under yo...

Rahab and the Wall

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She hid the spies and the walls came down Down around the city the people lost but she was saved for she helped them believed in them Oh the...

He is the Way

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The narrow gate, the doorway, the portal He is the means, through him we see the Father, none but through him he is the way to redemption, r...

Stones for the Kingdom

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Each of us, irregular stones, living stones, for the kingdom each with a place, a part to place to build up the foundations, the walls the b...

Living Angels

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The little pieces, bits of grace some which could easily go unnoticed people, living angels, helping us making our days a little easier our ...

Tucked in the Blanket

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The moon, three-quarters full shining in the afternoon blue she and I walking along “Where does the rest of the moon go?” she asked, wondere...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Bread and Wine

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In remembrance, bread and wine your sacrifice, of your life for all of ours your body broken for the sins of man the creator becoming the...

Stephen’s Prayer

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Like our Lord, Stephen’s prayer was for the leaders the scribes, the Pharisees, the chosen people, stoning him while they were killing him p...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

The Easter Message

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Our days, all of our days, to spread the Easter message the singular day, reclaiming us all rising from the dead we rise with Him we are no ...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

Her Walk With Christ

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I pray she finds him by her side walking that dusty road With the disciples on the road to Emmaus Walking with our Savior feeling his ...

I am Hers

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How easy it is to say, “I am hers”; but it is true My life makes sense because of her Her smile starts my day Her love makes the doubts fade...

Our Girls

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So much a part of us, of our lives our life together, with each other, with them Constant reminds, gifts from our father to add sparkle and ...

A New Beginning

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I feel the rumble just beyond the far horizon line change is coming to our family, to your ministry something is about to happen a new begin...

Living in His House All Our Days

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Welcoming the savior into our house, into our hearts, after the long journey the walk to Emmaus, the story of his life We open the door t...

Open the Door

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Open the door, step through the threshold enter the house of the father accepting his gift of grace his reconciliation, relationship once...