Poems

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TRUE AMBITION

Dorothy Day

Father, I ask Thy blessing on my life,Upon each thought, each motive, and each task.

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A PRACTITIONER'S PRAYER

Betty E. Thompson

O Lord , save me from the falseartistry of words;From the tendency to preach thatis acquired with bookish knowledge.

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HIS PEACE

Helen Faith Twichell

Into our night comes the Light.

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FREEDOM

Sarah Rebecca Hardie

I do not have to go,With faltering step and slow,Through some dim pathway,Strange, beset with fear.

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THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN

Marjorie D. Manley

The blessed harmony by Spirit framed,The perfect peace by our dear Master named,In tenderness and sweet compassion blendAnd find expression in a needed friend.

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HERE IN ETERNITY

Pearl Strachan Hurd

Here in eternity I findMyself in harmony with Mind.

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PRAYER

Mae Tucker

Each day to liftour torch so highThat weary travelerspassing byMay in its healingradiance share—This is a Love-inspiredprayer.

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As sunlight through the window glassRests radiantly on every class—On children's faces, lifted, sweetAnd eager, as their lips repeatCommandment or Beatitude,Or testify their gratitudeFor healing, guidance, blessings sentFrom God, from Love omnipotent—So, to the teachers' prayerful thought,As words of light and truth are sought,Love lends a glow, effulgent, clear,To light the paths which, starting here,Lead on through years of active good.

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TRUSTWORTHINESS

Mildred Booth Lord

Does discouragement seem to startFrom giving God but half our heart?

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FULFILLMENT

Max Dunaway

Long years I searched, looking far offFor what I believed life's richest prize,Until a voice said: Look where you are;Take of the good that near you lies.