String of Pearls – v2

Foggy morning

On the Vineyard

In Aquinnah

Wet chair, hot coffee

Sip in the heat

Shake the daze

Camera and film

At the ready

Over my shoulder; let’s go

Sandals snap as I walk

In the early morning

Before the island awakes

Misty morning

Silent witness

Full of promise

For a skilled watcher

Moving stalker

Of moment and place

Wet green

Color scheme

Lush, summer

Looking for a web

Adorned with moisture

Ready to pose

A string of pearls

There before me

Hovered before a backdrop

A perfect set up

Bowed by the wait

Of the night

A long cord

Tacky to hold the drops

As dew was conjured in the dark;

My reflection in each as I approached

To steal the scene

With close-up lens

Centered and balanced

Enlarged and framed

Hovering now

On my wall

To conjure the moment

On that path

Years ago

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November 3, 2018

String of Pearls – v2

May 20, 2004

String of Pearls

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/05/string-of-pearls.html

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The Sand in My Sandals – v2

The grit under my feet

the feel of the weight lifted

in each step I take forward

there is sand in my sandals

The dirt, the dust of this place

The sun-baked soil, the warmth

carried as I walk, as I journey

as I seek to serve the Lord

All of us, missionaries in the world

sent as they were sent, going,

to do His work, to spread His message

to heal in His redeeming name

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edited January 14, 2018

The Sand in My Sandals – v2

July 19, 2009

The Sand in My Sandals

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.kr/2009/07/sand-in-my-sandals.html

Mark 6:6b-13

Mark 6:1-13

Upper Room Disciplines 2009

for July 5, 2009

and sand in my sandals

July 19, 2009

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Which is the Holy Ground – v4

Which is the holy ground, when is the ground holy

a place to take off my sandals, to touch,

to walk barefoot on holy ground

We miss so much, limiting ourselves, stagnant,

if we do not see the holy in our midst, surrounding us,

everyday grace, ordinary, real, right before our eyes

All the ground is holy, sacred, a gift of the Creator;

Feel the rich earth, the hard ground,

the rock beneath our bare feet.

Walk, run, play, kneel on the holy ground,

in the innumerable sacred spaces,

in the creation all around us

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edited February 13, 2017

Which is the Holy Ground – v4

(merging edits to original and version 3)

edited December 2, 2015

Which is the Holy Ground – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/which-is-holy-ground-v3.html

(editing original again)

edited October 29, 2014

Which is the Holy Ground – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/10/which-is-holy-ground-v2.html

April 19, 2008

Which is the Holy Ground

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2008/04/which-is-holy-ground.html

Exodus 3:5 and reflections on

Ann Weems’s poem, “Holy Ground”

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Which is the Holy Ground – v3

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, limiting ourselves, stagnant,

if we do not see the holy in our midst, around us,

everyday grace, ordinary, real, right before our eyes

All the ground is holy, sacred, a gift of the Creator;

Feel the rich earth, the hard ground, the rock

beneath our bare feet. Walk, run, play, kneel

on the holy ground, on the sacred spaces,

in the creation all around us

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edited December 2, 2015

Which is the Holy Ground – v3

(editing original again)

edited October 29, 2014

Which is the Holy Ground – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/10/which-is-holy-ground-v2.html

April 19, 2008

Which is the Holy Ground

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2008/04/which-is-holy-ground.html

Exodus 3:5 and reflections on

Ann Weems’s poem, “Holy Ground”

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Ignited with Fire – v4

Timid followers, disciples in the spirit

sharing the words of power, of truth,

hope of the Savior, transformed by the Spirit

ignited by the fire of God’s love

Infused with the Spirit’s authority

steeled and changed forever

preaching to the ends of the earth

to Jew and Gentile, slave and free

All were to hear the message

of the grace of God, of life,

freely given, as if by flames

alighting on each one of us

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edited July 11, 2015

Ignited with Fire – v4

(editing original)

edited May 9, 2015

Ignited with Fire – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/05/ignited-with-fire-v3.html

(editing original again)

edited June 12, 2014

Ignited with Fire – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/ignited-with-fire-v2.html  

May 10, 2008

Ignited with Fire

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2008/05/ignited-with-fire.html  

Acts 2:1-21

Pentecost

Acts 2:1-21

Pentecost

Acts 2:1-4, The Message

and quote attributed to Corrie ten Bloom,

“I have a glove here in my hand.  The glove cannot do anything by itself, but when my hand is in it, it can do many things.  True, it is not the glove, but my hand in the glove that acts.  We are gloves.  It is the Holy Spirit in us who is the hand, who does the job.  We have to make room for the hand so that every finger is filled.”

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Dunes - v4

Coming upon a pristine moment

An old weathered section of snow fencing

half buried in the lee of the dune

its gray skin gnarled by wind and water;

Saw grass and beach plum blossoms

intertwined with the rusted wire

holding the old slats of the fence.

Flip flops and sandals

lined up along the path

leading to the Atlantic;

Warm white sand drifted

mirroring the swells and troughs

undulating offshore,

living under La Luna’s spell.

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edited June 29, 2015

Dune – v4

(editing version 2)

edited April 16, 2015

Dunes – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/dunes-v3.html

(editing original)

edited April 14, 2015

Dunes – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/dunes-v2.html

2/25/06 18:00

Dunes

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/02/dunes.html

Martha’s Vineyard, ca 1995

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