Breathing this Prayer - Poem by Raymond A. Foss

Inhaling your love
exhaling a bit of your grace
breathing this prayer
of asking God
to change me
to move me
conforming my life
to the work you would wish
the plan for my life
that I would be
more in your image
my clay remolded
to your purpose, oh Lord
transform me I pray
over and over again
refined in your fire
that I may reflect you
as I walk in this world

July 7, 2010
based on comment about this poem
on posting it to www.christianpoetry.org
July 7, 2010
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Transform Us

Change our lives Lord
transform our troubled hearts
help us turn from the world
a more humble servant help me be

Change me, father God
may I truly give
the blessings you have shown me
in everything I say and do
A good neighbor to the world
a sheep in your heavenly flock

Change me, holy Christ
from the way of this earth
Guide me, your yoke upon my shoulders
let me walk more closely to thee

Change my heart, gentle Spirit
your word upon my lips
May I care for my neighbors,
in how I humbly live

November 3, 2009
Ecclesiastes 5:8-15
Psalm 15 (Psalter)
& sermon, “Oh For the Simple Life . . .”
by Pastor Ruth L. Foss
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
11/1/09
All Saints Day
http://www.gbod.org/worship/default.asp?act=reader&item_id=19864&loc_id=9,612,32,52
Her sermon is the first 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)
&
and scripture,
“’Not by might nor by power,
but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty”.
Zechariah 4:6, NIV
flyer from Billy Graham Evangelical Association
http://www.billygraham.org
received in the mail today
&
1 Thessalonians 5:17
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
&
Day 281, “Priority of Prayer”, in
“Daily Mediations: On Golden Texts of the Bible”,
by Henry Gariepy
http://books.google.com/books?id=9tjVtRt3TUMC&pg=PP1&dq=henry+gariepy&ei=6tqBSqLVDJiQyQT4i9DOCg#v=onepage&q=&f=false
read June 30, 2010
&
1 Thessalonians 4:16
1 Thessalonians 5:1
1 Thessalonians 5:18
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
&
Day 280, “Someone is Coming!”, in
“Daily Mediations: On Golden Texts of the Bible”,
by Henry Gariepy
http://books.google.com/books?id=9tjVtRt3TUMC&pg=PP1&dq=henry+gariepy&ei=6tqBSqLVDJiQyQT4i9DOCg#v=onepage&q=&f=false
read June 29, 2010

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