When We Turn - Poem by Raymond A. Foss

When we turn, he is right here waiting
we will find him, right by our side
Our father, ever, seeking our focus
that we would turn and cleave to his side
Going along, this road as we travel
knowing the pain our estrangement creates
honoring yet our right to our choosing
leaving the way for us to come home
Ever within the wingspan of our reaching
beside us in the trials of this life
Struggling within, our father hurting
wishing, wanting, us to repent
The father, our brother, the spirit indwelling
each of them singing when we run for home

November 18, 2009
John 15:9
and
book, “Walking with Christ Everyday:
365 daily devotions for men”,
http://www.parable.com/parable/item.Walking-with-Christ-Every-Day-for-Men-Devotional.9781583344774.htm
Day 318, “His Intimate Love”
read 11/17/09
&
Luke 15:11-32, “The Prodigal Son”
Proverbs 21:5, 21:20
Psalm 98:4-8 (Call to Worship)
and Matthew 6:24
“No man can serve two masters:
for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else he will hold to the one,
and despise the other.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
& sermon “The Saints and Their Checkbooks”
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
November 8, 2009
His sermon is the second of a four-part series based in part on
Reverend Adam Hamilton (http://www.cor.org/about-resurrection/adam/)’s book,
“Enough: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and Generosity” (http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=9781426702334)