Poems

READING ROOM

This is no vacuum,No hollow, empty space,To which the people come.

HE WHO BY WISDOM

Silently growsIris in courtyard.

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Where is God when bad things happen?

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From Conquering hate, enthroning peace

Love's triumph over hate

How can we love when others hate? Prayerful turning to God, divine Love, with the earnest desire to express His qualities under all circumstances will give us strength and ability to do right.

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THIS IS THE DAY

Let every act, this glorious day,Be one of Mind's directing;Let every kindly thought and wordBe one of Love's perfecting.

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DAY

"The evening and the morningWere the first day.

GOOD NOT LOCALIZED

Naaman's story speaks to meOf a man of honest thought.
Unselfed is love,Yet constitutes all selfhood:Without it we are nothing.

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Shared reflections

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

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 Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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DANIEL

There was no guile in him.

LULLABY FOR A CHILD

All the little birds have gonein their nests to sleep,and out in folds I cannot seesleep the woolly sheep.

MEASUREMENT

And if a thousand years be heldThe same as one day in His sight,Can aeons build a plethora?

SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT

The Master saw no mortal eyesYearning for correction,But steadfastly beheld Love's childExpressed in Love's perfection.

THANK YOU

Thank You for the knowledge, God,That You take careOf everything and everyone,Everywhere.

UPWARD

We rise to greater heightsfrom valleys deep;our view grows widerwhen we climb the steep.