Poems

Overcoming shortcomings

Man is nota lowly tillerof sordid scenarios,unneighborly maneuveringsand various other mortal schemes.

Awakening

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

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Where is God when bad things happen?

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From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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I pray

that my thought may a manger be,like the manger of our Lord,welcoming the eternal Christever newly born.

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A measure of meekness, Lord

Give me a measure of meekness, Lord;not a self-degrading whineor moans of falsely modest care.

Star!

That light of hope,That expectancy of good,That certainty of answer.

Childlike faith

My widowed mothersaw her meager earningsas that which God would magnifyinto sufficient supply—as Jesus saw the five loaves and two fishes.

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Shared reflections

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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From Overcoming grief

What death does not do

We go on gaining moment by moment in the understanding that God is the only real Life.

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From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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A little light

It seemed my light was justSo small.

After the children leave home

Miles do not a barrier make orseparate from love; for Loveis ever by our side; embracingeveryone.

Impassable? Impossible!

North, the jagged mountains rise,South, the endless desert lies.

Keynote

No wispy platitudenor simple words of comfortthis great command,

Together with God

I looked at my dear oneacross the room.

WINDOWS OF HEAVEN ON EARTH

Look out—.