Poems

I can only be what God is seeing of me. And I can only see what God is knowing all to be.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

All power, energy, force, sovereignty, are Yours, Father. How magnificent Your law of good interpreting the universe.

Sometimes, as here I sit in church— this place so filled with love, so free from fear— God's presence is so strong and near I know I am His child, much loved and dear. LEE REEDER.

ANGELS. God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality.

When he said "Be opened" did he doubt? Instead he walked straight forward in that eternal line of truth which, before Abraham, was there to deliver and to save. It opened then, it opens now as we, pressing on, walk this same straight line and, like him, looking up and giving thanks have no doubt.

Sight held tight through will or fear is sight that clouds the far and near When sight is sought in matter's field it cannot harvest Spirit-yield Then set sight free from time and place to rest in Soul's uncrowded space DORIS KERNS QUINN.

The earth-weights of time and space would waylay and rob me of my peace and joy and love in the rush and crush and push of self-centered life style— but, wait, my soul, upon your God. Be still: then the melodies of Soul, with their cadences countless, sound the depths of the silence of my heart, drawing forth the pulsating, vital Christ treasures only the Mind named Love can impart.

"Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. " ( Matthew 5:8 ) No need for waiting.

Like the Psalmist, who sang, "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof," let me see all environed in blessings, walking in a living land, no ugliness or death— only the beauty of the living God, made plain at every step. And let me accompany with undaunted song the declaring heavens, the rejoicing hills.