Filled with Compassion - Poem by Raymond A. Foss

Christ loved us anyway
judging us not
filled with compassion
sharing his life with us

Eating with the outcasts
the Samaritans and the others
the women, the lepers
with all who were left out

We are to follow his example
love even for our enemies
offering love and kindness
in our walk on this earth

Loving our neighbors
giving of our lives
offering them our witness
so no more may die

May 27, 2011
racial bullying at Pembroke Academy
and
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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