One People

One People    for Rev Troy Perry

Isaiah 6:3-8
Let all nations
Come to me
For all people
Are mine.
No one will be
Turned away.
All who come,
No matter who they are
Will be accepted.

John 17:21-23
Let all become
One people,
And know the love
That is theirs to have.
Let all divisions
Go away,
For all are mine.

I Corinthians 8:6
I am here for you,
I gave you life
And all my love
Is yours to have.
I sent Jesus
That you might
Know what love is.

Ephesians 4:4-6
And as you are
All mine,
You should be
One people,
One in spirit
A'nd body;
For all people 

Were created by me

And I love them all. 

Hope for the Kingdom

    Hope for the Kingdom of love, which shall come. 
It is in this kingdom that all shall live in peace,
nor shall any put down any other.  No person will be
made to feel that they are less than any other person. 
And God's love will be there for all, for all are His
children. 
    Work for the Kingdom of love and let all people
know that God's love is there for them.  This is what
Christmas is all about, God's love made manifest,
walking among the people, showing all how they were
to live in peace. 
    Live as Christ did, loving all people, sharing
God's love with all, and the kingdom will come sooner. 
For the more we live in love and in Christ, the more
the kingdom is present in this world.  And let God's
love flow through us all out to the whole world, that
all the world will know God and His love.

Thoughts on Love

More power in love, in loving people.

Love is the strength that keeps us going.

Love is the root of all life.

Love is God’s power loose in the world.

Love is a healing strength.

Love is complete happiness.

Love is life; eternal, full and complete.

Love is God; God is love.

Love is wanting the best for whoever you love..

Love is not grasping, holding on, but a setting free  so that whoever you llove can wander and then come bac to you.

Nothing is so great, so wonderfu as love, yet we know so little about it.

Love Is Ours

Love is ours 

To have 

But only 

If we 

Give it away. 

So come 

With me 

And let us all 

Walk hand in hand 

In love 

And a world 

Redeem. 

Can we all learn to love one 

another and accept each as a child 

of God? Or is it already too late 

for us? We make too much of 

differences between people. And 

that is the problem  - we make of

differences a reason for hatred 

when hatred should have no 

place in us. Can we learn to 

learn to replace hate with love 

and redeem the world?

Let us

Come, let us love 

And not let hate 

Fill our souls. 

For God does not 

Hate anyone, 

For only love 

Can dwell 

With God. 

The Dream

    I had gone to bed.  For a time, I could not sleep, but tossed and turned restlessly.  Then, as I finally started to drop off to sleep, I had the strangest vision, or if you will, a dream.
    It seemed as if I was so large that this solar system of ours was as a toy to me, and I held in my hands our planet.  It was as a ball or a precious jewel.
    It seemed so perfect, this jewel I held, all blue and green, with shifting streaks of white.  But as I looked more closely, I could see flaws.  The scars of war were there, old wars and the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  And the newer wars of Vietnam and Bosnia.
    Then with penetrating sight, I looked and saw flaws more hidden.  The flaws of hate and suspicion ran across the face of this jewel I held.
    Suddenly, I feared to let go of this ball, this jewel, for if I let it go from me on its appointed rounds, I feared that it would come back to me in fragments, exploded, or as a blackened and dead world.  But yet I let it go, and watched more carefully, for it had become suddenly very precious to me.
    Then I was myself.  And I thought and then wondered if God were not at times afraid to let go of this world of His.  For it seems that however hard He tries, we people turn from Him and choose, instead of the path of glory and light; other darker paths.
    Then my dream returned to me.  And I seemed to watch, afraid, as this precious world of ours wound its way through the starry night. 
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Sacred Ground

Sacred Ground

Be very careful

How you walk here,

There is danger near,

But also know

You walk on sacred ground.

There is death here

Amidst the shattered steel,

So step carefully

Because you see

You walk on sacred ground.

The concrete here

Has crumbled to dust

And rises with every step,

But stop and remember;

You walk on sacred ground

Sept 11, 2002

The shattered steel

Is gone now,

Ashes and dust left;

But still and always

This is sacred ground.

They Live

They live 

In fear, 

Not knowing 

Which way to turn. 

No time 

For love, 

Or any gentleness 

For all around

There's violence.