Poetry Where You Live Poetry and photo site with over 1,650 poems and 660 pictures, along with many links. At least 500 of my poems are faith based. Member of United Methodist Church. Statistics Unique Visitors: Total Unique Visitors: Outgoing: Total Outgoing: 0 0 4 1972

Articles from Poetry Where You Live

The Image of the Invisible 2007-12-08 15:12:00 Seeing Christ is seeing God,wherever we encounter himin the words of the holy scripturesin the lessons of his lifeHis teachings to the disciplesHis life as an example, as model,as witness to righteousnessloving relationships in our life’s journeya way of seeing the intangible, the infinitein terms we can comprehendAnd when even that seems too far offChrist himself made it clear,as we do it to the least,we do it to him, so we do to Godseeing God in all in needDecember 7, 2007Based on Colossians 1:11-20 and the sermon,“Imaging Jesus”, by the Reverend Lori Eldredge,Wesley United Methodist Church, Concord, NHNovember 25, 2007 ...

So Much Like Me 2007-12-08 15:09:00 In love and at logger headsso we seem to be, at the polesSo much like me is shefirst born, cluttered, intense,wanting my love, my acceptance,to feel my hug, my praise,my encouragement.Just as I wanted his.How my heart melts in her arms,smiles when she waves from the school bus windowwhen she gets a good grade on her spellingthe words we struggled overSlow to rise in the morning, just like mepassionate about that which interests herWanting the very best for her,that her way could be a bit easier,even when it cannot be.December 7, 2007 ...

A Simple Thanksgiving 2007-12-08 15:03:00 His turn around the tableto share what he is thankful forthis Thanksgiving season, this yearA simple thanksgivingso like the first Thanksgivingin Plimouth, so long agothankful for God, for this placeThis land of ours, our homeour ability to believe, to worshipas our conscience, our faith guidesIn a time of war, his wordsa poignant reminderof how much we truly haveto be thankful for,each and every dayDecember 7, 2007about the sharing of things we were thankful forat the start of Church Council, 11/19/07,Wesley United Methodist Church,Concord, NHThis poem is based on Dan Haines,Chair of the Evangelism Commission ...

Putting on His Yoke 2007-12-08 14:54:00 Choosing to be paired,yoked to the Christ,following the commandthe instruction of the Fatherserving in the field, the vineyardworking as one, joinedfor God’s purposessubjugating our wills,the Son’s and our own,beside himDecember 7, 2007Matthew 11:28-30 ...

A Reflection in the Chrome 2007-12-08 14:50:00 The blues, purples, yellow, goldbaked into the chrome pipesof the classic Harleydraw me to you, my camera, to capturethe beauty of the shape,the colors of your metalIn the captured image I see a distorted,skewed image of me, frozena reflection in the chromeDecember 7, 2007 ...

December Sunlight 2007-12-08 07:55:00 Cool bright lightstreaming in my windowmaking it a bit hard to see the screentyping these lines; but well worththe challenge they makeLike feeling your presencewith me this morning Lordthe light you give the worldto guide and direct our pathto make the way in the dark clearto lead us back to youDecember 8, 2007 8:55am ...

Seeing the Words 2007-12-04 11:26:00 Writing is so much aboutseeing the words, the constellations,points of light against the black sky,the mind’s eye of unconsciousnessknitting the words into the tapestry,the fabric they were meant to begossamer wings and steely gravitasblended or plucked from the ethersuch is the process of inspirationfinding the words, already stitched togetherwoven tight with strong bondsphrases and thoughts tied togetheralready formed, ready to be discoveredseen and printed onto the pageDecember 4, 2007 12:25pmabout writing poetry, when it is a gift of God,transcribing the words God already wrote ...

King of the Mountain 2007-12-04 09:01:00 A sermon on transformationon seeing the world with the eyes of Godloving the world, wanting peacetransforming weapons, things of paininto things for good, for food and farmingof a king like none other,bowing as a servant, caring for enemiestaking on our sina king of the mountain,unlike any childhood gamewe ever sharedA king on the mountainGolgotha, the Skull,nailed to a crosstransforming our fateour world, with peaceand with loveDecember 4, 2007 9:57amIsaiah 2:1-5Based on the sermon, “Preparing for Peace”,by Reverend Peter Hey,Wesley United Methodist Church,Concord, NH, December 2, 2007 ...

Lost Beat Poetry 2007-12-03 16:52:00 Ron Cervero has posted one of my poems on his site, Lost Beat Poetry, at http://www.lostbeatpoetry.blogspot.com/. Check it out when you can. ...

Sermon - "You Can’t Take It with You", given by Ruth L. Foss, Sanbornville United Methodist Church, Wakefield, NH, September 30, 2007 2007-11-30 08:13:00 1 Timothy There is an old song that goes Money makes the world go around…the world go around …the world go around. Money makes the world go around…that clinking clanking sound” from Cabaret. /it reminds me of how society is today. If you don’t have money…you have nothing, are nothing, you have not accomplished anything in life. What a way we live today...all stressed out because we have too little money and stressed out because we have too much and have a new set of issues we have to deal with because of it. How can we find balance…find peace…be truly happy in this life we live? The Epistle reading from 1 Timothy this morning is a wealth of information for us. It tells us of the problems with earthly treasure but it also tells us what the true treasure we should be looking for…aspiring to find. It is a road map for us on the road of “Christian Perfection” that John Wesley talked about so many times. It gives us a guide line to live by. T ...

Sermon - "The Art of Forgiving", given by Ruth L. Foss, Sanbornville United Methodist Church, Sanbornville, NH, November 25, 2007 2007-11-30 08:06:00 Luke 23:33-43Have you ever done anything for someone out of the goodness of your heart? How about for someone who has done you wrong…someone who has made fun of you and mocked you…someone who has stolen from you…or even someone who you know has done something wrong to someone you love? If you’re like me…it is a hard thing to do. How about forgiving someone who has done you wrong or someone you love…or even someone who you don’t even know who does something wrong…something evil to someone else? To truly forgive someone who has done wrong is a tuff thing to do. It’s our human nature. We want to see someone pay for what they have done to us or those we love…they deserve whatever they get for what they have done. But here…on the cross…Jesus shows us a different way of life. We are shown a radical forgiveness.Jesus’ ministry on earth was pretty radical to begin with. Instead of fighting we were told to love one another as ourselves…instead of cursing our enemies ...

Sermon - "Shaken but Not Stirred", given by Ruth L. Foss, Sanbornville United Methodist Church, Wakefield, NH, November 11, 2007 2007-11-30 08:02:00 (Read Haggai 1:15b-2:9)Wow…a moving and a shaken…when our God moves…when our Creator creates…there is a whole lot of shaken going on. Is our God awesome or what? (Glory to God) I can only imagine the scene when God moves in this way. I am sure that during the creation of the world…God spoke…the earth trembled…and came into being.In the scripture from Haggai…I am sure that the Israelites too were shaken during this part of their history…but shaken in a different way. They were finally able to start rebuilding the temple…but the task…what a task they had. There was the temple of the Lord…laying in ruin…nothing but rubble…sitting on the ground in front of them. How were they going to take on this task?I am sure that there were many people in the remnant that remembered the temple the way it was. They probably had some wonderful times there and remember it in its grandeur (This had been Solomon’s temple after all…can you imagine how it looked in its day?). T ...

Stopping a Train Wreck, in Progress 2007-11-28 15:22:00 Some days, some of themare like stopping a train wreck,already in progress, the sequence of eventslong since set in motioninexorably leading to the crashthe carnage, the debris fieldthe disruption of the livesthe lives of all involvedThe task is to find a way, even at the last momenteven as the brakes are screeching, screamingthe sparks flying and the faces turned to seeto find a way to jump the tracks,to move the switch, to steer the speeding trainaway from the brink of disasterand find another trackNovember 27, 2007 8:36am ...

Uncomfortable Names 2007-11-25 18:37:00 Other names from other scripturebended with the letter to the Colossiansrevealing a more human picturethe man who was the Christthe Messiah, seen through other eyesa refugee in a foreign land,King and rebellious child, disobeying his parents,staying in the temple, without permissionwandering in the wilderness, in the land, without homea drunkard, a provocateur,challenger of the order of the dayAll images of the Sonfor whom and through whomall was created, the universe begunthe first born, the head of the body,the church, the good shepherdand the narrow gate, the waythe living water andthe bread of lifeThe lamb on the crossand on his royal thronewaiting with outstretched armsfor us allNovember 25, 2007 5:40pmBased on Colossians 1:11-20 and the sermon,“Imaging Jesus”, by the Reverend Lori Eldredge,Wesley United Methodist Church, Concord, NHNovember 25, 2007 ...

Seeing God 2007-11-25 18:31:00 In seeing Him,we see Godin imagining the face of Jesuswe get an image of Godan approximation of the infinitecontained within flesh and boneBorn in the stable, anointed by the dovetransfigured on the mountainsidemade whiter than whitethe face of Christweeping for Lazarus,cursed by the crown of thornsforgiving even at the moment of deathhanging, dying in shamecrucified by the crowdin forgiveness an image of Godwho is loveNovember 25, 2007 5:50pmBased on Colossians 1:11-20 and the sermon,“Imaging Jesus”, by the Reverend Lori Eldredge,Wesley United Methodist Church, Concord, NHNovember 25, 2007 ...