Poem October 6, 1997 Issue

"The standard of perfection"*

Mary Elizabeth G. Baker

The past is not the standard of life's perfection.
My prayer is not to be returned to yesterday's condition
(which claims to have been better than today's),
but to be moved forward into clearer understanding
of what God has known from "the beginning,"^{Gen. 1:1, and Science and Health 502:22–27.}
and Christ confirms,
that the real me
was, is, and ever shall be
measured by,
and up to,
divine Mind's original standard—
perfection.

*Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health 470:18.

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