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Poems

Healing waters

From the December 2015 issue of The Christian Science Journal


River
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in the midst of your Sahara
parched with fear, or weary
with looking for some oasis—
some relief from your distress
a lake before your feet
awaits your own discovery
shimmering with grace

deep within, healing waters
flow from the fount of Soul
kneeling, you feel a trickle first
then in your yielding, a stream
cleansing you, refreshing you,
buoying you above the mortal view
a river quenching all your thirst

so you find yourself and others
totally engulfed, immersed in Love

I have felt it gush upon my brother
and I was healed by God’s Niagara love.

—Nancy Humphrey Case

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