Poetry Where You Live

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 41,120+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

going another way

reminded of the Wise Men

changing their course

warned by God

of the treachery of Herod

going another way

submitting to God's leading

submitting our lives

to the will of God

February 21, 2016

not listening to the world

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/not-listening-to-world.html

February 21, 2016

seeking our path

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/seeking-our-path.html

February 21, 2016

the path of God

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-path-of-god.html

February 21, 2016

a way around

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-way-around.html

February 21, 2016

around the stumbling blocks

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/around-stumbling-blocks.html

February 21, 2016

other paths

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/other-paths.html

February 21, 2016

going another way

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/going-another-way.html

February 21, 2016

I need to let go

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/i-need-to-let-go.html

February 21, 2016

Stetson Memorial UMC

Second Sunday of Lent

“The Way”

Adapted Sermon Series

by Marcia McPhee

“The Wandering Way”

adapted by Pastor Ruth Foss

https://twitter.com/PastorRuthFoss

http://www.facebook.com/pastorruthfoss

http://www.pstruthsermons.blogspot.com

sermon blog

http://www.pstrruthfoss.blogspot.com

meditation blog

http://pstrfoss.wordpress.com/

“God’s Whisper” blog

Psalm 8:1-4

https://t.co/izY7oWFnDg

https://t.co/68koAjPIia

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/785601074879583/

Mark 1:16-20

https://t.co/L5PSFJ7HVj

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/785600881546269/

sermon, “The Way Around”

text:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=785605521545805&id=174161846023512

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/sermon-way-around-by-erica-berberena.html

https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/701462004414947329

https://t.co/rgLc7pZRP1

video:

https://t.co/lOoEPWr1qF

https://t.co/rxYAAGNLZ2

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/785603231546034/

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/2212016-sermon-way-around-by-erica.html

by Erica Berberena

https://www.facebook.com/erica.berberena

Children’s Message from empty Mystery Box

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/785657114873979/

https://t.co/MH3CShDebB

https://t.co/fNWw5AXu2z

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/2212016-childrens-message-empty-mystery.html

by Raymond A. Foss

https://www.facebook.com/raymond.a.foss

Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stetson-Memorial-United-Methodist-Church/174161846023512

2nd Sunday in Lent

February 21, 2016

February 14, 2016

Stetson Memorial UMC

First Sunday of Lent

“The Way”

Adapted Sermon Series

by Marcia McPhee

“The Wandering Way”

All Scripture is from the AMP Bible

Luke 1:46-49

Luke 4:1-2

Luke 15:11-32

sermon, “I Am A-Maze-D…”

text:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=782948138478210&id=174161846023512

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/sermon-i-am-maze-d-by-pastor-ruth-foss.html

video:

https://youtu.be/HVRIc7qHl8c

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/782824865157204/

by Pastor Ruth Foss

Children’s Message from Mystery Box

https://youtu.be/cP-sZrLatDo

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/782798135159877/

by Pastor Ruth Foss

Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stetson-Memorial-United-Methodist-Church/174161846023512

1^st Sunday in Lent

February 14, 2016

Ash Wednesday service

Joel 2:12-17a

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Patten-Maine/103791236325669

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

centering song, “Surely the Presence”

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781074601998897/

Opening Words

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781074371998920/

Greeting

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781084578664566/

Lenten Prayer

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781075995332091/

Hymn, “In the Garden”

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781098985329792/

Prayer of Confession

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781093881996969/

Words of Assurance

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781074181998939/

Invitation to Communion

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781118305327860/

Prayer after Communion

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781076795332011/

Invitation to receive ashes

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781084888664535/

Distribution of Ashes

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781118075327883/

Lenten poem: ”Journeying to Jerusalem”

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781094995330191/

sermon, “The Math of Lent 2.0”

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781100208663003/

by Pastor Ruth Foss

and closing hymn,

“It Is Well with My Soul”

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781223248650699/

Closing Prayer

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781075071998850/

Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stetson-Memorial-United-Methodist-Church/174161846023512

Ash Wednesday

February 10, 2016

I need to let go

I need to let go

I need to trust her

I cannot smother her

to use my will

to charter her direction

I need to let go

I need to trust her

to follow her heart

and Your calling, oh God.

February 21, 2016

not listening to the world

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/not-listening-to-world.html

February 21, 2016

seeking our path

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/seeking-our-path.html

February 21, 2016

the path of God

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-path-of-god.html

February 21, 2016

a way around

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-way-around.html

February 21, 2016

around the stumbling blocks

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/around-stumbling-blocks.html

February 21, 2016

other paths

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/other-paths.html

February 21, 2016

going another way

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/going-another-way.html

February 21, 2016

I need to let go

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/i-need-to-let-go.html

February 21, 2016

Stetson Memorial UMC

Second Sunday of Lent

“The Way”

Adapted Sermon Series

by Marcia McPhee

“The Wandering Way”

adapted by Pastor Ruth Foss

https://twitter.com/PastorRuthFoss

http://www.facebook.com/pastorruthfoss

http://www.pstruthsermons.blogspot.com

sermon blog

http://www.pstrruthfoss.blogspot.com

meditation blog

http://pstrfoss.wordpress.com/

“God’s Whisper” blog

Psalm 8:1-4

https://t.co/izY7oWFnDg

https://t.co/68koAjPIia

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/785601074879583/

Mark 1:16-20

https://t.co/L5PSFJ7HVj

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/785600881546269/

sermon, “The Way Around”

text:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=785605521545805&id=174161846023512

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/sermon-way-around-by-erica-berberena.html

https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/701462004414947329

https://t.co/rgLc7pZRP1

video:

https://t.co/lOoEPWr1qF

https://t.co/rxYAAGNLZ2

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/785603231546034/

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/2212016-sermon-way-around-by-erica.html

by Erica Berberena

https://www.facebook.com/erica.berberena

Children’s Message from empty Mystery Box

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/785657114873979/

https://t.co/MH3CShDebB

https://t.co/fNWw5AXu2z

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/2212016-childrens-message-empty-mystery.html

by Raymond A. Foss

https://www.facebook.com/raymond.a.foss

Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stetson-Memorial-United-Methodist-Church/174161846023512

2nd Sunday in Lent

February 21, 2016

February 14, 2016

Stetson Memorial UMC

First Sunday of Lent

“The Way”

Adapted Sermon Series

by Marcia McPhee

“The Wandering Way”

All Scripture is from the AMP Bible

Luke 1:46-49

Luke 4:1-2

Luke 15:11-32

sermon, “I Am A-Maze-D…”

text:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=782948138478210&id=174161846023512

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/sermon-i-am-maze-d-by-pastor-ruth-foss.html

video:

https://youtu.be/HVRIc7qHl8c

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/782824865157204/

by Pastor Ruth Foss

Children’s Message from Mystery Box

https://youtu.be/cP-sZrLatDo

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/782798135159877/

by Pastor Ruth Foss

Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stetson-Memorial-United-Methodist-Church/174161846023512

1^st Sunday in Lent

February 14, 2016

Ash Wednesday service

Joel 2:12-17a

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Patten-Maine/103791236325669

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

centering song, “Surely the Presence”

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781074601998897/

Opening Words

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781074371998920/

Greeting

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781084578664566/

Lenten Prayer

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781075995332091/

Hymn, “In the Garden”

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781098985329792/

Prayer of Confession

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781093881996969/

Words of Assurance

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781074181998939/

Invitation to Communion

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781118305327860/

Prayer after Communion

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781076795332011/

Invitation to receive ashes

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781084888664535/

Distribution of Ashes

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781118075327883/

Lenten poem: ”Journeying to Jerusalem”

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781094995330191/

sermon, “The Math of Lent 2.0”

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781100208663003/

by Pastor Ruth Foss

and closing hymn,

“It Is Well with My Soul”

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781223248650699/

Closing Prayer

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781075071998850/

Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stetson-Memorial-United-Methodist-Church/174161846023512

Ash Wednesday

February 10, 2016

Heal her, Lord, if it be Your Will – v2

This is my prayer, this moment,

as I read these lines, this scripture;

Heal her, Lord, if it be Your will

may the pain, the suffering, end;

Put a balm upon her body

remove her suffering, the pain,

she has so long carried;

Heal her, Lord, if it be Your will

may her pain, her suffering, end

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February 20, 2016

seek to serve Jesus

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/seek-to-serve-jesus.html

Sanctuary for Lent 2016

by Sue Mink

Matthew 11:25b

Matthew 11:25-26

devotion for February 19, 2016

read February 19, 2016

February 20, 2016

flashes of light

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/flashes-of-light.html

Sanctuary for Lent 2016

by Sue Mink

Ephesians 6:20b

Ephesians 6:18-20

devotion for February 18, 2016

read February 19, 2016

edited February 21, 2016

working in the field – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/working-in-field-v2.html

February 18, 2016

working in the field

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/working-in-field.html

Sanctuary for Lent 2016

by Sue Mink

Matthew 9:38

Matthew 9:36-38

devotion for February 17, 2016

read February 17, 2016

edited February 21, 2016

Heal her, Lord, if it be your will – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/heal-her-lord-if-it-be-your-will-v2.html

February 18, 2016

Heal her, Lord, if it be Your Will

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/heal-her-lord-if-it-be-your-will.html

Sanctuary for Lent 2016

by Sue Mink

Matthew 8:8b

Matthew 8:5-13

devotion for February 16, 2016

read February 17, 2016

edited February 21, 2016

who are these guys

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/who-are-these-guys-v2.html

February 18, 2016

who are these guys

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/who-are-these-guys.html

Sanctuary for Lent 2016

by Sue Mink

Luke 6:12

Luke 6:12-16

devotion for February 15, 2016

read February 17, 2016

who are these guys – v2

Looking at the menagerie

the group that followed Him;

I wonder what people must have thought

as Jesus came toward them

Who are these guys

how could God choose them;

what did Jesus think, really,

when He named the twelve disciples

Who are these guys

this ragtag collection

of fishermen, merchants

poor simple folk

How did they start the church

the tide that has risen;

how did such simple folk

transform the world

===============

February 20, 2016

seek to serve Jesus

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/seek-to-serve-jesus.html

Sanctuary for Lent 2016

by Sue Mink

Matthew 11:25b

Matthew 11:25-26

devotion for February 19, 2016

read February 19, 2016

February 20, 2016

flashes of light

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/flashes-of-light.html

Sanctuary for Lent 2016

by Sue Mink

Ephesians 6:20b

Ephesians 6:18-20

devotion for February 18, 2016

read February 19, 2016

edited February 21, 2016

working in the field – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/working-in-field-v2.html

February 18, 2016

working in the field

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/working-in-field.html

Sanctuary for Lent 2016

by Sue Mink

Matthew 9:38

Matthew 9:36-38

devotion for February 17, 2016

read February 17, 2016

edited February 21, 2016

Heal her, Lord, if it be your will – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/heal-her-lord-if-it-be-your-will-v2.html

February 18, 2016

Heal her, Lord, if it be Your Will

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/heal-her-lord-if-it-be-your-will.html

Sanctuary for Lent 2016

by Sue Mink

Matthew 8:8b

Matthew 8:5-13

devotion for February 16, 2016

read February 17, 2016

edited February 21, 2016

who are these guys

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/who-are-these-guys-v2.html

February 18, 2016

who are these guys

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/who-are-these-guys.html

Sanctuary for Lent 2016

by Sue Mink

Luke 6:12

Luke 6:12-16

devotion for February 15, 2016

read February 17, 2016

sermon, "The Way Around", by Erica Berberena, Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church, February 21, 2016, Second Sunday in Lent

The Way Around

By: Erica Berberena

Many people have opinions on how other people should live their lives. For example the youth of our day and age have people telling them what they should be doing with their lives and how to do it. But here is the real question is it the way that God chose for them. Our own individual ways are not always understood. Jesus found this out himself for if his way had been understood then just maybe he wouldn’t have been crucified. On a personal note many of you know that I had gone off to college right after getting out of high school. I had people telling me that it is the only way I could be someone in life. I had people telling me that I should go for writing because I was good at it. But the real question was did I love doing it and was it the way that God had created for me. In the end I decided that it wasn’t the best for me because I didn’t have a passion for it. It is said that if you love doing the job you choose then it makes it easier to do. We are all created differently than one another only God knows the possibilities of us and only he knows who we actually are for he is the one who created each of us to be different. Sometimes it is better to do what we dream of doing with our lives because only God can create these dreams for us. Sometimes we just need to stop and say God I put my life in your hands do with it as you will because only he knows what our future holds. It’s better for us to take God’s way for us and bypassing the ways chosen by other people for us because their way may not be the best for us in our pursuit to be ourselves and not carbon copies of what everyone expects us to be. In the end it is God who is the best person to take the advice of which path we take because only he knows everything.

Dear God we come to you today to ask that you take us and steer us down the way you have chosen for us so we may become the people you have designed us to be. Amen.

February 21, 2016

not listening to the world

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/not-listening-to-world.html

February 21, 2016

seeking our path

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/seeking-our-path.html

February 21, 2016

the path of God

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-path-of-god.html

February 21, 2016

a way around

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-way-around.html

February 21, 2016

around the stumbling blocks

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/around-stumbling-blocks.html

February 21, 2016

other paths

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/other-paths.html

February 21, 2016

going another way

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/going-another-way.html

February 21, 2016

I need to let go

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/i-need-to-let-go.html

February 21, 2016

Stetson Memorial UMC

Second Sunday of Lent

“The Way”

Adapted Sermon Series

by Marcia McPhee

“The Wandering Way”

adapted by Pastor Ruth Foss

https://twitter.com/PastorRuthFoss

http://www.facebook.com/pastorruthfoss

http://www.pstruthsermons.blogspot.com

sermon blog

http://www.pstrruthfoss.blogspot.com

meditation blog

http://pstrfoss.wordpress.com/

“God’s Whisper” blog

Psalm 8:1-4

https://t.co/izY7oWFnDg

https://t.co/68koAjPIia

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/785601074879583/

Mark 1:16-20

https://t.co/L5PSFJ7HVj

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/785600881546269/

sermon, “The Way Around”

text:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=785605521545805&id=174161846023512

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/sermon-way-around-by-erica-berberena.html

https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/701462004414947329

https://t.co/rgLc7pZRP1

video:

https://t.co/lOoEPWr1qF

https://t.co/rxYAAGNLZ2

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/785603231546034/

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/2212016-sermon-way-around-by-erica.html

by Erica Berberena

https://www.facebook.com/erica.berberena

Children’s Message from empty Mystery Box

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/785657114873979/

https://t.co/MH3CShDebB

https://t.co/fNWw5AXu2z

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/2212016-childrens-message-empty-mystery.html

by Raymond A. Foss

https://www.facebook.com/raymond.a.foss

Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stetson-Memorial-United-Methodist-Church/174161846023512

2nd Sunday in Lent

February 21, 2016

February 14, 2016

Stetson Memorial UMC

First Sunday of Lent

“The Way”

Adapted Sermon Series

by Marcia McPhee

“The Wandering Way”

All Scripture is from the AMP Bible

Luke 1:46-49

Luke 4:1-2

Luke 15:11-32

sermon, “I Am A-Maze-D…”

text:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=782948138478210&id=174161846023512

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/02/sermon-i-am-maze-d-by-pastor-ruth-foss.html

video:

https://youtu.be/HVRIc7qHl8c

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/782824865157204/

by Pastor Ruth Foss

Children’s Message from Mystery Box

https://youtu.be/cP-sZrLatDo

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/782798135159877/

by Pastor Ruth Foss

Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stetson-Memorial-United-Methodist-Church/174161846023512

1^st Sunday in Lent

February 14, 2016

Ash Wednesday service

Joel 2:12-17a

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Patten-Maine/103791236325669

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

centering song, “Surely the Presence”

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781074601998897/

Opening Words

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781074371998920/

Greeting

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781084578664566/

Lenten Prayer

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781075995332091/

Hymn, “In the Garden”

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781098985329792/

Prayer of Confession

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781093881996969/

Words of Assurance

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781074181998939/

Invitation to Communion

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781118305327860/

Prayer after Communion

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781076795332011/

Invitation to receive ashes

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781084888664535/

Distribution of Ashes

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781118075327883/

Lenten poem: ”Journeying to Jerusalem”

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781094995330191/

sermon, “The Math of Lent 2.0”

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781100208663003/

by Pastor Ruth Foss

and closing hymn,

“It Is Well with My Soul”

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781223248650699/

Closing Prayer

https://www.facebook.com/174161846023512/videos/781075071998850/

Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stetson-Memorial-United-Methodist-Church/174161846023512

Ash Wednesday

February 10, 2016

Poetry Where You Live

Sunday, February 21, 2016

other paths

going another way

I need to let go

Heal her, Lord, if it be Your Will – v2

who are these guys – v2

sermon, "The Way Around", by Erica Berberena, Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church, February 21, 2016, Second Sunday in Lent

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