Poem June 25, 1938 Issue

Selfhood

GLADYS MARION ADAMS

What is this self to which we fondly cling
As though it, of itself, accomplished aught?
Save by reflection man has never wrought,
Nor ever can achieve, one worthy thing.
The human self has one task—to bring
In line with unselfed love our every thought;
Put that which is in place of what is not,
And know the allness of God's governing.

Selfhood in matter we can never find.
Man but reflects the omnipresent Mind.
Yet human selfhood may not be despised;
Rather, it needs to be evangelized,
Transformed, transfigured, till at length we prove
The perfect image of God, perfect Love.

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