What do we risk - Poem by Raymond A. Foss

What do we risk in this life
if we stand in the background
if we speak but do not act
when we are timid in our witness

What do we risk each day
hearing the cries of the needy
yet sitting quietly in our pews
not going into the streets

Justice in these troubled times
will not come if we are silent
safely stored away in comfort
in our warm and safe places

Only if we stand with Christ
risking our persecution
then and only then
do we truly live out our purpose.

May 26, 2011
in part inspired by conversations with
the Reverend John Makokha
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=556451505
Riruta United Methodist Church
http://rirutaumc.homestead.com
http://www.rmnetwork.org/
Other Sheep Afrika-Kenya http://www.othersheep.org/OSEA_CL_Other_Sheep_Kenya.html
Children of Africa Hope Mission Project in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. http://rirutaumc.homestead.com/children_of_africa.html
&
Matthew 25:31-46
The Sheep and the Goats
&
Matthew 28:18-20
Great Commission

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