To understand the world - Poem by Raymond A. Foss

To understand the world,
our humanity,
our place within the world
a story of the beginning
how the world, life began

From the deep, the chaos
light parting the dark
the waters from the skies
the dry land bearing plants
animals filling the sea, the skies

Man rising from the dust
the clay, the breath of God
for life to come in
All of the laws, the plans of God
revealed in the world we share

More than we can comprehend
a start in the story unfolding
the world, the universe,
the atoms, the design
all wrought by the hand,
spoken by the voice of God

January 13, 2010
Genesis 1:1-2:4
(read responsively by the congregation,
speaking the words of God)
Psalm 19:1-13
Congregational Centering hymn:
“Let All Things Now Living”
Faith We Sing, #2008
Anthem: “The Time Between”,
http://www.gbod.org/worship/music/timebetween-crider.pdf
by R. Frederick Crider, Jr. (Ps. 31:14-15)
and sermon, “The Book of Genesis: The Story of Our Beginning”
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson,
based in part on Chapter One (Genesis 1:1-2:3),
of book, Wrestling With Angels: What Genesis Teaches Us About
Our Spiritual Identity, Sexuality and Personal Relationships,
by Naomi H. Rosenblatt and Joshua Horwitz
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
January 10, 2010
First Sunday in Epiphany
(Baptism of the Lord Sunday)
&
Psalm 8:4-5 (KJV)
“What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.”