Poems

Answered prayer

DOROTHY P. SEAGREN

The answered prayer iswhere incessant questions and thundering resistancemelt before the penetratinglight of the Christas frustrated query is replacedby ever-present law of joy.

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True brotherhood

VICTOR G. LEWIS

I discovereda great improvementin mewhen I began to seeimprovement in others—awakened to the factthat all,being children of God,are, in Truth,my brothers.

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spiritual lightemergingfrom its sourceacts not like a flashbulb—one sudden, explosiveBURST in the darkintense/brief/absorbed/consumed—butas the piercing shaft of a searchlightcutting across the night,it beacons/draws/gathers inthe lost and afraid,and in a sweeping caress,illumines all it enfolds in the spotlight of its beamfocusing/magnifying/revealingprecise images of God's own being.

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Home

JENNIFER BARTLETT

I remember the first welcome home:No questions were asked—There was just the sweet warmth of Truth's embrace.

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The way opens

ELLEN MARY DAIMWOOD

I stood between my choices,Not knowing what to do.

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True consent

DOROTHY P. SEAGREN

Just as a C.

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While writing my résumé, this thought comes

WARREN BOLON

The wordless commandof Mind and Makerstops stillthe over-rolling weightof matter's awesome logic,flipflops its imagined triumph,repairs hope crushed,restores lost peace.

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This day

JUNE KAEHN

Rejoice, for the Lordhas made this day—not for a beginning,not for an end,butthat Life may bethe joy of ourcountenanceand our song of rejoicing,my friend.