Poem October 28, 1996 Issue

The grace of being quiet

Gloria Clements

Quiet would I be, not as in falling asleep,
but as in stillness of a millpond rim to rim
for Truth and Life and Love's reflection clear to keep,
thus replacing reaction, vehement, aghast,
with harmony of hearing God and holding fast
the active grace of patience, watching, keeping peace.
Then evil's blatant incivility must cease,
and I show forth the lovely real of God's reflection,
following meekly, effectively, serenely God's direction,
my thinking, speaking, doing all with Him, with Him.