Poems

CANA

You saw the water redding,Traveler, at Cana?

PRAYER FOR COMMUNION SUNDAY

I lay my heart on the altar of Love.

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From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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GUIDANCE

I sought by human will one dayTo walk the path in my own way,But wisdom bade me pause and waitFor Mind's unfailing light to guideMe in the narrow way and straightWith Love's own presence at my side.

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ETERNITY

We have eternity.

ONE

With but one God, and that one good,We know our Father's motherhood.

HE PURGETH IT

Is it for this I am wounded?

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Where is God when bad things happen?

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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 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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GOD'S GIFT

We seemed to live within a crumbling worldWhere honest work brought no abiding gainAnd where, adventuring, all our schemes were hurledAs dust to dust—our labor spent in vain.

I COULD REJOICE

Although there seemed to beearth tears for me.

LOVE ALONE IS POWER

Put up thy sword.

A PRAYER

Let all that is unlike Truth witheras the rootless treeAnd vain advice be still.

WE TOO MUST CAST OUR NETS

The Christ-instilledteachings of the Masterwere proved to fishermen.

THE MORNING MEAL

It must have been upon a fair, sweet dayWhen all the air was fresh with morning dewThat the great Teacher bade his followers comeAnd share the morning mealBeside the sea.