Poems

NO DESERT PLACES

Lenorah A. Wadsworth

A skylight window in an attic room,to some, might have meant discouragement and gloom;but one brave heart refused to acknowledge dangeror insufficiency.

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THE STAR

Harold Vinal

They were a people who for forty yearsPitched their great tents against the burning dark,Drank from the brook at Eshcol, and shed tearsUpon the meads of Ain and saw the arkBorne before Moses.

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WATCHER AT BETHLEHEM

Hester Champney

First my ear caught the silver sound of a bell.

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I am listeningWhen all sense of self is put away,When fear has fled and error's nightHas been replaced by Love's revealing day,When with calm trust I knowThat God owns every hour,When I can wait, assuredThe Father with His love and powerMaps and marks the willing traveler's way—A way harmonious, bright, wherein each step is shown,Because the traveler makes true listening his own.

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LET GO OF PERSONS

Dorothy Neilson Derry

A friend once gave me,When I was burdened by the acts of personsand the why of things,A healing thought:

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INNOCENCY

Carol Earle Chapin

The Psalmist sang.

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"GIVE YE THEM TO EAT"

Mary E. Izzard Root

My store seems meager, but they have come farTo glimpse the Christ.

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RELEASE

Dorothy H. Stephens

"God requireth that which is past.

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THE NEW BIRTH

Jean McWhood

As thought begins to soar above the earth,And mortal weights release their fearful clutch,There dawns a deepening hope, a heartfelt touchOf Life and Love which signals the new birth.

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IN QUIET WAYS

Irene Cutlip Reuter

A mighty wind once rent the mountainsideAnd brake the rocks apart; an earthquake came;And then a fire; but these did not proclaimGod's presence in the world's chaotic tide.