Poems

FOCUS

Consideringbut one thing at a timeis focus.

GRATITUDE TO A FRIEND

You said so many years ago:Keep close to God.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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THE OPEN ROAD

Self-belittlement and false humility:Twin roadblocksSubtly covered upTo look like pointers to unselfishness,Need to be hoisted firmly to one sideto find the road you really want to go.

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A POEM FOR EASTER

Easteris a reminderof renewal,a celebration.

LOOK UP!

Assailed by doubt when healing did not come,I remembered at Bethesda a man who watched a pool.

CONSCIOUSNESS UNBOUNDED

Home, heaven, is the center—consciousness unbounded—infinite good thrusting outward, ever,man blest eternally.

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Anthology of classic articles

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A spiritual perspective on politics

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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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UP AND DOWN

She was already praying and comforting and holdinghim tight.

QUESTION & ANSWER

Understanding isthe basis of beingthe basis of seeingwhat already always is

GOD'S DRIFTERS

None need be afraid of drift.

JERICHO REVISITED

Father, in our secret hoursof self-distrustor mortal pride of lifeYour presence does surroundthe strongest citadelof error's earthen thralland tumbles down its wallsinto the dust.

NO WAY!

Tired of it all?

KNOWING OUR NEIGHBOR

Just this morningdid we greet him,seeing his true identity?