The Tug of Your Calling - Poem by Raymond A. Foss

Uncomfortable
the tug of Your calling
to leave the pews
the congregation
safety with these walls
to go where we are led
to submit to You our all

We pray for Your guidance
an answer to our yearnings
to live out the faith
what we feel in our hearts
yet we long, we linger
we wallow in our comfort
growing only inside
without serving our neighbors

The world where we are to work
out there beyond the doors
to go as we are able
not as we are ready
using what we have
the things we have been gifted
to go as we are led
to the ends of the earth

Serving our master
loving our neighbor
bearing witness to
the grace of God in our lives
Going out beyond these walls
into the street
the radical hospitality of Christ
showered on our feet

October 16, 2010
status on Neven Hanna’s Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=539960654
“Do not ask the Lord to Guide your Footsteps
if you are not willing to move your Feet' ENJ”
http://www.facebook.com/raymond.a.foss#!/permalink.php?story_fbid=157577904275737&id=539960654¬if_t=like
&
Romans 12:2 (God’s Word Translation)
(posted on Ruth’s office door)
“Don’t become like the people of this world.
Instead, change the way you think.
Then you will always be able to determine
what God really wants—what is good, pleasing, and perfect.
Pastor Ruth L. Foss, of
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
&
Romans 12:2 (King James Version)
“And be not conformed to this world:
but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,
that ye may prove what is that good,
and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
&
Annual Church Conference
Exodus 4:1-17
Exodus 4:2
“What do you have in your hand?”
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
October 13, 2010
&
Exodus 4:1-17
Romans 12:1-8
John 13:12-17
Welcoming Service
for the Reverend Dr. David J. Abbott
http://www.neumc.org/dsite.asp?dv=3
as District Superintendent of the New England District
http://www.neumc.org/
of the New England Conference
of the United Methodist Church
&
his sermon, “What Is That In Your Hand”
&
Bishop’s Day in New Hampshire
with Bishop Peter Weaver
First United Methodist Church of Laconia/Gilford
September 11, 2010

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