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Saturday, December 27, 2008

A Working Pier

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a dock, a working pier out into the estuary the pull of the tides, swaying seaweed barnacles, algae, the smell of rot oil, diesel, rope, net...

Magnificat

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Joining Mary, her song sung to God, for all generations - blessings we share, each of us with her, all creation, blessed by the creator ...
Friday, December 26, 2008

Speak Zechariah

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Speak Zechariah, what shall be his name Who will this son be, your baby boy what is his call, even now, speak Zechariah What did the ange...

A Prayer for Micah

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A prayer for Micah in the words, the power of his story His words coming true the promise of God Christmas night, fulfilling his words that ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Journeying to Bethlehem

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Traveling, to that city, traveling far guided by your light, by your nativity star finding you in the manger bed no room for them in the inn...

Right Side Up

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The story of Christmas trying to turn the world right side up, to turn from the power of might to a world where sacrifice, where servanthood...

Testify Elizabeth

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Testify Elizabeth to the Son of God in the womb of the virgin your cousin before you Testify to the light, coming into the world the incarna...

A Christmas Night

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It was the night in a stable so long, long ago the cattle were lowing, the manger below Mary and Joseph keeping their watch over the babe, u...

What Gifts Will I Bring

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What gifts will I bring to your manger bed, to your throne, covered in hay to lay by your feet, before you All that I have, all that I am my...

What is His Name

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What is his name, this son, born in your old age this boy in your arms, ready for the covenant, the ritual, Abraham’s covenant, to be one of...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

A Servant of the Lord

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We, like Mary, servants of the Lord people of faith, of the covenant serving, rather than being served following the example of our brother ...

Let it be with me

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Let it be with me as unto your word, your will, your plans for me, Lord. I submit my will to you my brother, my savior my father, my creator...

By Your Will

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By your will, oh God I will go where you would lead me that voice, the spirit, speaking deep down within me your voice, your word this I wil...

To Be Like Mary

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A prayer, a wish, a choice to be like Mary, to choose turn from this world, to the will of God a grander plan, unseen to cast my lot, my lif...

By Your Word

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Be unto me according to, by your word my life, charted by your will my days turned over submitted to you Such was her response the servant, ...

A Mother’s Prayer - edited

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A mother’s prayer for her child, for her children for healing, for grace for the pain she carries to be lifted from her weary shoulders her ...
Sunday, December 21, 2008

By God’s Standards

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Teaching a lesson, the same lesson throughout the bible, his holy word that the strong are not better, the rich, the powerful the same in th...

Four Candles Burning

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Shining together around the still-dark candle Hope, Peace, Love, and Joy not yet fulfilled, revealed the Christ candle still unlit waiting, ...

A Plate Before the Crèche

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Like the wise men, the cows, the shepherds, the mother, the father their praise, their prayer, their gifts our offering plate tithes and gif...
Friday, December 19, 2008

Christmas cat - coloring by Erica

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Winter scene - coloring by Shanequa 12/18/08

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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Rest from Our Burdens

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He offered them, He offers us still rest from our burdens, our trials our struggles in life bring them, we who are weary and lay them at his...
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Lay Down Your Burden

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Take Up My Yoke Choices, not thrust upon us to let go of our troubles, to turn to Christ, to lay our cares at his feet to take the yoke of h...
Monday, December 15, 2008

Returning to the Manger, to the Cross

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Continually, without ceasing, prayerfully returning to the manger, to the cross returning to Bethlehem, to Calvary to hold Advent, the mange...

Antlers of Ice

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The water formed antlers of ice fingers maybe, layered, tallowed, hand-dipped candles, bits of frozen magic, in the mist the splash abov...
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Colored Lights

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Colored lights, of the season no, not the Christmas tree lights, the lights on the bushes out front, though we have both The colored lights ...
Sunday, December 14, 2008

Testifying

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Speaking, witnessing, testifying to the light sharing its power, its glow testifying to the light, bringing light the love of God, into the ...

Minding the Light

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Seeing the Light, minding the light itself the flickering flame, the light growing, coming the light, the word, coming returning, enter...
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Witnessing

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Witness, testify, preach, proclaim shout out, call out into the world, the wilderness speaking the truth testifying to the light to the comi...

Being a Stump

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To be a stump, living waiting, open, aware underground, yearning for God’s grace depending on God, His time new life, a new purpose the prom...

Called to Witness

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Like John, at the banks of the Jordan like Isaiah, the people in exile anointed, to be witnesses, to testify to bring the word, the light fo...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

A Prophetic Voice

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A prophetic voice a witness, to the light, to the coming known before he was born the coming of the Messiah a voice, crying out, at the top ...

He is Already Here

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His answer, the prophetic, the voice calling out in the wilderness He is already here, among you, living, the one who is to come, already he...

He is Among You

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Already here, among them, living, growing, becoming a man, ready ready to begin his ministry, he coming foretold, heralded, one crying in th...

Omnipotent, Vulnerable

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The omnipotent, vulnerable divine, incarnate creator, clay eternal, infant the father, a son Prince of Peace, the humble lamb the king...
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Return to Bethlehem

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We must return, to Nazareth, to Bethlehem to the river, the Jordan to the time of the Christ, with us before his birth, hopeful, waiting won...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Testify to the Light

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Testify to the light, the light of God the father, the light of Christ the son, the light of the Spirit holy, living, growing, within each b...

Witness to Light

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We, like John, standing in the wilderness up to our waist in water weighed down with the world Like him, witness to Light to the light of Ch...

Witness of unseen light

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He was a witness, to the light, coming into the world, crying out a witness, testifying, preaching, exhorting, calling all to repent, to tur...

10,000 poems

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With the postings today, there are now 10,000 copies of my 3,350+ poems on the four sites I post to, almost daily. I thank God for this gift...

Illumined in the womb

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Before he was born, before the Messiah illumined in the womb, filled by the Holy Spirit a prophet born Proclaim the Savior into the world ba...

His voice shining

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His voice, rising, calling in the wilderness preparing the way, of the coming Lord his voice shining, bringing the light into the world in t...

Shining in wilderness

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He was shining in the wilderness his voice, his message, bringing, heralding calling forth, calling, testifying to the light announcing the ...

A Community Prayer

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The words, our father, forgive us, give us, our daily bread the words of a community a communion, a loving family praying, in unison, togeth...

Our Prayer

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The prayer, which he taught his words, for us to share, for our prayer The prayer he told us to pray For the words connect us join us, with ...

Our Father - 2

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The words are “Our Father” praying to God, claiming the divine our Father, as Christ is our brother co-heirs of his inheritance to be welcom...

A Neighbor

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Looking for definition term of art, the bounds the legal jargon “Who is my neighbor?” The plain meaning, legislative intent looking for limi...
Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Light, into the World

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His light, living, growing, becoming part of us, his reflected light, becoming our own growing within us, we are in the world living in time...

Shining through us

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His light, for the world radiating, shining through us out of our very skin, our pores shining into the darkness bringing light, real hope t...

Reflected Light

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Light to the world his light, reflected in us, through us, living within us we the bushel, the lamp stand depending on our choice Reflect th...
Monday, December 08, 2008

Led to the cross

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Each of us, if we are open, ready, prepared led to the cross, the cross of Christ, his sacrifice his blood shed; his body pierced submitting...

Lead me to the cross

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“Lead me to the cross”, his profile said his statement to the world, written on the ether, the ephemeral, the web permanent as the bits, the...
Sunday, December 07, 2008

The Shoot, the Root, the Vine

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The stump, the remnant, the root of Jesse eternal, the connection, the living vine one with Him, with them, abiding the shoot, long buried i...

You are the light of the world

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“You are the light of the world.” Such a statement, a calling God speaking to man we are the light of the world, us, these clay vessels,...
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Our Wilderness

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Our voices, our wilderness like John, in the river proclaiming the coming of our Lord, the son of God mightier than all baptizer with God’s ...
Saturday, December 06, 2008

whispered in their dreams

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the history of the world, the very future of life changed in that moment, when their faith prevailed when they were comforted, when they agr...

By Angels Manifested

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In dreams, by angels manifested the fulfillment of prophesies of old the line bringing forth, the savior of the world a blessing in faith ma...

Mary and Joseph's Journey

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Mary and Joseph’s journey, so much more, much more than traveling from Nazareth to Bethlehem, the Temple the holy city of David; Jesse’s...
Friday, December 05, 2008

Oak, Pine, and Grasses

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Shades of browns, driving by mile on mile, below the greens of the pines oak, pine, and grasses, leaves, needles, blades all creating a sing...

Granite Hay Bales

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The field, positioned, placed granite hay bales, as if harvested grown from the soil, the crop of the farmer bundled and situated waiting to...

Blank Space

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Blank space, stripped up to about my shoulder all bare, up to where they can reach once the winter snow falls blank below, brown green above...

Reaching Out

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A birch, fallen, extending reaching out, over the still-running water the bank starting to freeze, the water moving down below the highway b...

Tails

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a small patch, a cluster cattails in the median glowing, glistening December sun, midday Ready to burst open like milkweed pods to spread th...

Footprints in the Snow

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The wind, waves, in the frozen surface dark and light, sculptured, textured like footprints in the snow a herd of steps, of feet An ocean of...

Snow between the rows

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Snow, a melting dusting layered, in the December sun mud, ruts, the stubble snow between the rows, the stalks the dirt changing, darkening b...

The Purr of a Cat

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Sitting there, the office petting, stroking his orange fur she spoke of a longing, a desire the purr of a cat, remembering wishing for its r...
Thursday, December 04, 2008

A Seam in the Sky

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Looking upward, memories looking down, below my feet outward, beyond my vision a seam in the cold December sky cut, white, ivory, in the dar...
Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Mary’s Face in the Dark

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Her face, the virgin Mary glowing in the night, shining in the kitchen window illuminating the room, after midnight The artistry of the pain...

The Cold

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I feel the cold closing in, seeping, oozing slowly coming in through the walls, the floor, the panes of tempered glass the cold, the damp, t...

In Nature

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in the touch of my daughters’ fingers in the brush of our cats’ fur in the swirl of leaves falling to the ground the dance of snowflakes, dr...
Sunday, November 30, 2008

Happiness Inside

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Happiness grows within us a sense of being, of sharing, of true blessing, no matter our circumstances Happiness dies within us when we linge...

She Cannot Make You Mad

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Wisdom in the scripture, of the nature of blessing an internal feeling, something within not something we have done to us yes we are blessed...

Happiness Within

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Happiness, not something external a state of being, deep within, within ourselves living with us, walking with us, our hearts blessed are...

Blessed Within

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We are blessed, no so much from the external signs blessed within, within our hearts, our spirits the gifts manifested, visible, when we a...

The Waiting Season

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The season of Advent the waiting season, out in the winter cold spending time in community, in fellowship in your adorned sanctuary, remembe...

Waiting - 2

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Waiting, in our hearts, for our king born in the manger, living in heaven at the right hand of God Waiting, in our lives, for our brother th...

Anticipation

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Anticipation, this Advent season waiting, wondering, when will that time come watching the calendar, for the coming of the babe the gift of ...

Waiting Expectantly

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Waiting expectantly, for the Christ child the babe of Bethlehem, grown and risen his first life on earth complete Risen and living at the ri...

Expectantly Waiting

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Expectantly waiting, for Christmas for the Christ child, the songs, the hymns, the pageant, the story, shepherds, angels, wise men three, jo...

Anticipation – acrostic

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Angels sang of your coming None can stand before you my king Teach me to wait expectantly for your second coming Immanuel, God with us, rest...

A Journey of Waiting

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Walking, reading, pondering, waiting a journey of waiting, expectant, hopeful of his miraculous birth, the story of his life for his coming,...

The Nativity Evolving

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Over the days, the journey of Advent the nativity evolving, the scene coming into focus beginning with the couple, expectant alone, in the r...

A Crispness

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A crispness to the air, the sky the sounds of leaves underfoot of the wheels running on the pavement the snap of the flag by the bank the fe...

The Advent Journey

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Following the star, we all, like them, following the star the light, the Word coming into the world living with us, to be among us a journey...

Mary and Joseph

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The chosen pair, to be the parents alone, in his ancestral home journeying to Bethlehem coming to this place, to the manger bed the stable, ...

Be Strong in the Lord

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Be Strong in the Lord so said the church’s sign by the roadside, many weeks gone by What did the drivers think as they raced by, busy in the...

A Light Burning in the Window

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Shining down on them expectantly waiting, the coming the birth of their child, a son foretold, by prophets, by angels A light burning in the...

Coming to this place

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Coming to this place to the sanctuary, the manger bed a journey of Mary, of Joseph, of the shepherds, the Magi, of you, of me, all coming to...

The Advent Wreath

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A circle of wire, of wood, of metal garland of ivy, of fir, of holly, of poinsettias unending love, stages of our journey leading to the Chr...

Advent Season

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The season, Advent season the season of waiting, of hope, expectancy, longing, remembering the babe in the manger, the King, riding on the c...

Keep Awake

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Keep awake, your oil ready watch, for the coming of the Lord for we know not the time or place when he will return, to judge, to save antici...

A City Prepared

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A city prepared, a foreign land made ready for us unseen by the saints waiting, prepared for them the reward of faith that which is hoped fo...

Passing His Cup

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Each time, each of us, passing His cup, drinking from that one cup, His offering His singular sacrifice shedding His blood, giving His body ...

Red and Green

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The red of His blood, the green of hope, for us of the promise of the sheltered valley our future foretold by the prophets of old Red and gr...

A Candle of Peace

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A first candle lit, a candle of peace beginning our journey a light burning in that circle never ending, glowing committing ourselves to be ...

A New Year Begun

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This day, a new year begun Advent, the season of waiting slowing our pace, even amid the holiday bustle starting anew, centering us on the l...

A Journey to Find Christ

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Like them, a journey, each of us, in our own time, our own ways a journey to find Christ walking as the Magi, the wise men, following His st...

Advent – haiku

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came into the world God as man, one flesh alive waiting for the king November 30, 2008 Isaiah 64:1-9 Mark 13:24-37 and sermon, “Anticipation...
Saturday, November 29, 2008

Advent – v3

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Anticipating the coming of the Lord Divine made flesh Voices of angels calling Eternal love in human form Nativity, humble and mild Tell the...

Suncook United Methodist Church - Community Dinner - 12/6/08

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