Becoming Proud - Poem by Raymond A. Foss

“Becoming Proud”
so true of our lives, our society
our abundance, our wealth
as if all of these were ours alone
our sweat, our righteousness, our just reward
making of ourselves, illusory gods
mortals though we may be
forgetting our maker, creator
the sovereignty, the loving grace
the bounty of God, our daily bread
providing for all of our needs
our abundance flowing, sourced
the springs, rivers of living waters
so easily forgotten,
in the seductive illusion
the heralded lies of our age
becoming proud indeed
before our fall, just as surely
as the fall of other earthly empires
as prophesied, foretold in Deuteronomy
and more, so long, long ago
how soon we forget
and repeat the sins of our forefathers
when we fail to learn, to become wise
the lessons of the past
when we have become proud before

November 28, 2009
Call to Worship, thanking God
&
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/GW/gw004.html
President George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
October 3, 1789
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/source/sb2/sb2w.htm
President Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation,
October 3, 1863
&
Acts 2:44-47
Children’s Sermon,
“Out of Our Abundance,
by Pastor Ruth L. Foss
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
&
Psalm 118:1
Youth Sermon
by Pastor Kevin Twombley
http://www.gccnh.com/
Grace Capital Church,
Concord, NH
&
Deuteronomy 8:11-20
Sermon, “We are living in a dangerous world”,
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson,
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
both part of
Pembroke – Allenstown Community Thanksgiving Service
http://www.pembrokechurch.org/templates/System/default.asp?id=40672
First Congregational Church of Pembroke
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church,
Suncook, NH
http://www.gccnh.com/
Grace Capital Church,
Concord, NH
http://www.catholicnh.org/directory/index.cfm?intType=1&id=72
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Allenstown, NH
http://cs.newhampshire.com/blogs/hooksett_editor/archive/2009/11/25/There-are-many-ways-to-make-the-holiday-bright.aspx
Allenstown – Pembroke Interfaith Food Pantry
November 25, 2009
at First Congregational Church of Pembroke
http://www.pembrokechurch.org/templates/System/default.asp?id=40672
Pembroke Street
Pembroke, NH