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Saturday, January 16, 2010

In Passing the Peace

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Piercing eyes, that smile natty attire, just so, sharing a moment with you in passing the peace a bit of Christ, love, in your lasting hands...

Walking with Jesus

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Hearing his call, speaking directly to me the love in his warm eyes they mean the world to me Walking with Jesus by the shore of Galil...
Friday, January 15, 2010

Meeting Christ

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Meeting Christ in the face of a stranger Meeting Christ in the face of a child grace makes such a way coincidence in our experience ju...

Educated by Strangers

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If we let them, if we are open moments of reflection, awareness being presence, in each instance being educated by strangers all of our ...

Aware of His Hand

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Mindful of the voice speaking within me aware of His hand guiding words onto the page My gift, in being present willing to stop to write whe...

the stones of this life

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carrying the stones of this life the sins of the garden and the sins of our days weighing us each down from our birth until we die lifted on...

Infants Still

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No matter our sense of self our wisdom on this earth infants still, the stuff of man keeping us from God We are made of the clay God so far ...

Relying on Your Grace

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Relying on your grace oh Lord, I pray to thee needing your love, your strength to turn from sin to you Knowing only in part the rift, my bre...

To Turn from My Sin

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The breach that Adam made the sin brought into the world Man lost a sense of grace as the Lord had foretold Dying in that moment that epipha...

Listening to the Snake

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The cunning, the lying word denying the word of God So much of the loss we know in the listening to the snake The tree that the Lord forbade...

Unable to Change

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Unable to change on my own to be saved needing the love of Christ his sacrifice, the cross, the grave His rising from the tomb ascendi...

Little Children

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In our separation the walk upon this earth we are far below our God from our very birth From the clay of earth in our wisdom our fault sin a...

Original Sin

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Adam’s sin, resting on us all dying before God Banned from the Garden In our choosing, free will a curse separating us from God from...

Needing the Christ

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We are humbly standing on the earth, with feet of clay separated from God by the sin of the garden by our own acts too Needing the Christ fo...

The Space between the Words

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In the space between the words the things left unsaid, not spoke aloud in the musings of our hearts deep within our souls These are the urge...

The Spaces between Words

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So often, in my prayers, in the poetry I am given in the words I am sharing The space between words this is where my prayer dwells the livin...

Under the Snow

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Under the snow the prayers in the ground the words, the hopes, the petitions laid down Covered, by the snow waiting for spring the pa...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

Email 1/11/10 from the National Religious Campaign Against Torture

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Dear Friends: We emailed you in December about calling for the release of the Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility (O...

The distance between God and man

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Man, made of the earth breathed to life by God made in the image of the holy one placed in the garden, the earth Left to watch, to reign ove...

Before Time

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Before time before the world began I Am God before the creation his breath over the deep The waters parted by the word of God by his hand, h...

The Qualities of God

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In being made in the image the likeness only of God Man able, to emulate to mirror the qualities of God In our nature the abilities, the pot...

Presumptuous

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Presumptuous that being made in the image that being like God makes us God like the creator, unbound, like the limitless God Such is the mea...

More Humble

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In reading too much into the meaning Man made in the image of God forgetting our place here on the earth How far below God is man More humbl...

Power, Responsibility

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Power, responsibility authority, made of the earth in the image of God To govern the world and tend the garden such was the charge to man Ma...

Like Us

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In the image of God in some translations, “Like us”, a royal we, the plural nature the trinity of God; but like God? Are our abilities, capa...

A Limitless God

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Made in the image of a limitless God; What then is the stuff of man? the bounds of our capacity the limits of man Able to grow and to be tra...

Understanding being made in God’s Image

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Able to be transformed, to grow a potential for good, for love able too, great evil such is the power capabilities of man Wisdom, qualities ...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

In Charge

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As with a trusted servant standing in the place of made in the image of God Man over creation in charge, as a servant a shepherd, steward no...

A Kernel of God

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A kernel of God carrying a piece of the creator each of us, man, made in the image of God The one who took chaos and made an ordered univers...

Known to God

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Each one of created crafted out of the clay made in the image of the creator each of us known to God None left behind each one of us alike n...

A Kernel of the Eternal

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A bit of the stuff of creation made in the image of God a kernel of the eternal held within each of our hearts The word of the creator ...

Carrying a Piece of God

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In being made in the image the image of God each of us carrying a piece of God within us our lives, our place assured Loved into exist...

Made in the Image of God

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Human beings, Made in the image of God mortal flesh given royalty by the breath of life within Lower than God walking this dusty earth...

More than a Myth

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Our story from the beginning more than a myth a truth from God ordering of the whole world Our place in the garden the kingdom of God...

At Our Beginning

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At our beginning the start of all of this the universe, the earth below The creator above the void the chaos, the deep, the dark God’s breat...

All Others

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All made in God’s image none left behind all of us the same no races, no genders nothing to set us apart all of us in the image made ...

The Bounds of Our Humanity

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Though made in the image of God we are not gods on this earth stewards only of the creation not creators ourselves The bounds of our humanit...

Our Story of the Beginning

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Our story of the beginning the world and all that is spoken into existence by the authoritative voice of God Thundering out into the darknes...

Holy Martyrdom

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Unlike those in this age blowing themselves up in the marketplace an image of martyrdom in the life of our Lord dying that we would live aga...

All in the Image of God

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Not just the kings, the pharaohs not just you and me all are made, all of humanity all in the image of God Gathered from the dust shaped by ...

To understand the world

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To understand the world, our humanity, our place within the world a story of the beginning how the world, life began From the deep, the chao...

To Understand Time

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The story of creation of the darkness and the light of day and night to understand time the beginning of all the will of God his power...

How the Universe Began

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Our story, our belief of creation how the universe began in the words of our creator speaking to life all that was, that is all of life...

That Millisecond of Time

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At the very beginning, that millisecond of time when the chaos, the deep was pierced by the light when order began to divide the dark f...

Yoked to the Lord

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Yoked to my Lord, my brother, my savior that I may walk the narrow path; my steps through the narrow gate Following the voice of my mas...

Relying on the Wind

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So much of life, caught up in the wind the source of life itself the breath of life, the word of God spoken at the first, to give us life...

Letting Go of My Plans

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Letting go of my plans surrendering my will turning to the calling of God Using the gifts I have received for the glory of my Lord Dro...

Changing Direction to Follow God

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Not what the world will understand my life, my course, changing again changing direction to follow the Lord to answer when I feel called To ...

A Different Path

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A different path a different way to lead my life Turning myself over to the calling from within Listening to the voice I hear answering my s...

Another Direction

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The path of my life changing course once more another direction this time, the calling of the Lord words burgeoning up from my soul needing ...

The Lord’s Plan

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Unlike other choices in my life calling from deep within an answer to countless prayers that I must begin, leave the past my earthly plans T...

A Different Plan

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Giving my life over to the calling of the Lord charting a new course a different plan following the Lord Changing my direction turning from ...

Changing My Direction

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My path not working changing my direction to the calling of the Lord trusting in his plan the guidance of the spirit stepping out in faith, ...

Living for Christ

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Our response worthy for an undeserved gift the grace of God given in the Christ, his gifts Living for Christ serving as he did spreading God...

Claiming More than We Ought

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Sitting in the pew the words before me on the screen, the page wondering how to feel reading the words of my creator his voice ringing in my...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Carried on the Wind

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Sound, music carried on the wind life in seeds on the breeze the fragrance of roses the dance of the clouds all of these on the wind If the ...

Affirmations with the Butterflies

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The butterflies, within me testing my faith not the whole story not in the least Affirmations with the butterflies from all around the globe...

If there were no wind

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I thought to think about the words of the boy What would the world be like if there no wind No wind chill factor for sure but much more laye...

The Weight of the Starfish

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Called by the girls, to their shape starfish beyond the water’s reach in the shrinking pools rocks drying in the air rust pink of the starfi...

If the Wind Stopped

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Commenting on the temperature to teens and pre-teens on the warmer air today; But they focused on the wind and the cold therein One of them ...

Speaking the Words of Creation

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A troubling sense in the process the pastor reading our story of the beginning and the congregation, playing God speaking the words of creat...