Poems

The lamb is humility's symbol. May I be a lamb— whose glory is meekness— yielding all will to the guidance of God! The star is a symbol of light in darkness.

Naaman laid aside arrogant national and self-willed pride that claimed his name and became again as he was before (before the world was, before the claim came). Little wonder then that right when his dipping act symbolized this fact his flesh shone undefiled as of a little child! HAZEL VALERY KNIGHT.

You know Lord what my Isaac means to me how long awaited how greatly cherished and yet Lord to do Your will is more to me than Isaac and so like Abraham before the ready ram is seen I offer up my Isaac and if there is no ram for me still I offer up my Isaac. BARBARA L.

Marking the lesson for the week— strengthening! Pursued, child-eager, Truth's passages contained, though not confined, within my two authorities appear .

When? Constant rising: no morning or evening, not temporal better , but eternal good. No material vanishing act: (though it so appear) less final victory than round-robin winning.

Pure teaching is like the wind: Mostly a current, flowing and peaceful; Ofttimes a breeze, bracing and wakeful; Maybe a push, joking and joyful; Sometimes a gust, jolting and needful; Even a gale, cleansing and powerful; Really the Spirit, loving and truthful. MARGUERITE L.

Keep sweet! The taste of wormwood or of gall could not defeat the milk and honey of the Christ. Be filled! Be nourished well of that meat, that meal where you yourself are healed and heal, whereby you grow from bitter/sweet.

O Love, release me from my smallness that hides Thy mighty allness. Release me from this "me" that shuts out Thine infinity.

God,      speaking to His beloved, says: Come unto Me where you belong                                                                    and stay with Me.      Look out from My infinitude of good, seeing good and only good,      for I Am that I Am, the All and Only: beside Me there is none.

"Not mine," I hold— the claim of grief for those gone from our sight. Not mine, I peaceably persist— the will to justify actions misunderstood.