Poems

THE ETERNAL GRACE

How anxiously we sometimes ponderThe why and wherefore, when and how,When all the while the eternal wonderOf Love and Life is here and now.

CHRISTMAS

Make your thought the resting place:Stable-quiet, starlight calm,Lowly as the scattered straw.

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Anthology of classic articles

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From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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REACHING OUT

Oh, how I remember that day!Yes, I was reaching out,Wildly, desperately, reaching out.

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THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY

My friend is gone, I'm told.

SEEING GOOD IN GOOD

Have you heard the phrase"See the good in him"and thought as I didto find some small tokenof graspable goodnessin among the other repelling traitsthat disgust, annoy, and impose—hoping to be satisfied with a sample of God's man?

DIVINE ECOLOGY

The grand ecology of the divineHolds all ideas in atmosphere of LoveWherein Mind's equiponderant designNurtures the hawk as truly as the dove.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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LOVE BARS NONE

Love barsbarring;loving allbars none.

LOVE IS ENOUGH

Love is big enoughTo fill all empty spaces in the heart.

MOMENT BY MOMENT

The gentlebend in tenderness—reaching to raise with fullest strengththat traveler wounded by thieves,lifting him upand bringing himby faithful beastsafe to the inn.

WHATEVER

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning".

ACCEPTANCE

In the high meadows,sunk between walls of pine and rock,the sun comes late and never lingers.

The Way of Happiness

A sparrow came flying to the lawn.