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Poems

THANK YOU

Naville Hoogs

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

UPWARD

Greta Claxton

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

PREPARATION

Kathryn Laney Veazey

Let me believeThough yet I have not seen.

"LET THE REDEEMED OF THE LORD SAY SO"

Leslie Marcoux

Gratitude should never beMere model of propriety:Wordless, shy, with thought ingrown,Living to itself alone.

TAKE OFF FROM THE STARS!

Nancy L. Holder

Scorn earth base,Take off from the stars!Use highest vision as your starting place.

MAN

Marie Harker Collins

It is said that man is mortal,that he suffers, sins, and dies,that he cannot cope with evil,though he tries.

CHALLENGE

Lillian M. Carter

Of course I love! The challenge comes: then prove it.

NOT ONE IS LOST

Cosette E. Colby

You never left your Father's house;You never lost the way.

DEPORTMENT WHEN UNOBSERVED

Grace Soden Haerle

"I do always those things that please him," Jesus said,Speaking of God.

TRUE SELFHOOD

Doreen Bowden

Real entity is one with God;It patterns Love's design;True selfhood must reflect the OneWhose being is divine.

WHERE ANGELS TREAD

Robert Ellis Key

Where angels tread,We do not seeTheir footprintsOn the grass,Nor do we hear themAs they gently pass.

HOLY PURPOSE

Naville Hoogs

If I have lightened someone's crossToday by word or deed;If I have loved sufficientlyTo sense another's needAnd answered it unsparinglyFrom heaven's boundless store,Then I have used God's talent wellAnd am prepared for more.