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Inspirational verse submitted by readers.

A quiet heart

If you pause, if you wait, if you listen with a quiet heart— you will wake to the light of God, you will rejoice in the love of God. In this hour, gentle as a silver bell with muted song, in this silence, still as a moonbeam on a dreaming leaf— you will feel His presence with inward joy, you will find His image in cloudless thought— if you pause, if you wait, if you listen with a quiet heart.

"When no man can work"

Now is the time to trust our Father-Mother— trust through the night, trust His resurrecting Son to show with healing light God's work done. Maxine Le Pelley.

She left me

She left in the flare of the sunrise As I walked in the luminous morning; Though constantly she had been with me, She left, and without any warning. Only the myth of a selfhood— That counterfeit concept of me— In one flash of glorious vision, I knew what it meant to be free.

A fluid finding

To seek and find is not to rest immobile in eternity. As beacons mark the way and not the end, so findings urge another seeking, while our steps take pause but never cease in our journey through infinity.

In church

A place of fresh beginnings where the Word of God makes new paths in consciousness— quietly, inexorably, consuming the dross until the gold shines through— where self meets the Son in a holy sacrament of Thy-will-be-done, and the yielding heart rejoices to find that yielding and healing are one. Mildred Kendall Shaw.

star bright

shining as the morning star man's primal innocence is found untampered inviolate centered in Love's allness Richard Howard.

Prayer before prelude

Father-Mother Mind, open our eyes to what is important and close our eyes to what is not. Help us forget plush seats, soft carpet, painted walls.

A few small fishes

One or a million, Mind's fetterless all knows no need— outpours itself to bless and feed! Elizabeth Glass Barlow.

Testimony meeting victory

For a Wednesday evening triumph, rise from the glueless pew! Which will you do: gummy resisting or gentle insisting? What's this ugly tugging—"I'd testify, but .

revelation!

                               to read-read-read a book—does that reveal? a revelation—yes (so well, completely feelingly described)          the letter yes                  and yes the spirit too .