Poem January 6, 1940 Issue

My Prayer Today

"The habitual struggle to be always good is unceasing prayer."—Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, page 4.

IVA B. LINEBARGER

I long had prayed that God might see my way
And take from me my earthly bonds and give
Me better things. But since I prayed amiss—
These things received I not. And now I try
To pray as Jesus prayed, who only asked
To know and do the will of God.

At dawn

Today I woke to pray—and as I walked
Into the light of God's infinitude,
I lost belief in earthly things and saw
Their fearful shadows disappear to nought—
As naturally as had the shades of night
Before the dawning day. I saw in Love's
Eternal good God's will fulfilled, and then
I knew that I, reflecting God alway,
Could know but good and do but good today!

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