Poems

Our innocence, not beneficial? Not timely? Lamblike living permits entry to the sheepfold of grace where we discover what we always are, pure Christ-idea. Such purity, honed through living lamblike, reveals the practicality of innocence— no fear, no lack, no discouragement.

Recalcitrant memories are but dream shadows, drawing us into yesterday where we may lose sight of the nowness of Life. But I refuse to go back.

Jacob —wasn't he the one who cheated Esau of his blessing at their mother's instigation? Wasn't he the one who tricked his father, who was old and growing blind, then fled before his brother could become a murderer? Wasn't he the one who had a problem with his thigh, and slept on stone— a mortal with a long list of evils past, for which he must atone? or was he Israel —after whom whole nations of, generations of, Christly men would follow? Wasn't the past swallowed up in an opening path when he saw God as omnipresent and man as loving son, caring brother? Didn't his brother run to kiss him, and didn't he bring a family safely home? June Rice Scheetz.

God's is the hand that moves and weaves the thoughts we wear in this bright hour: their threads are woven into one robe of prayer .

Why should I keep trying when no one seems to care? Never mind who cares. See that flower? Is it clamoring, "Look at me!" and complaining because its tiny yellow jewel-flame is half-hidden by its cinquefoil leaves? Does it turn on and off its being like a lamp and go dark when I'm not here to appreciate its minute beauty? Shining for self, our light goes dim.

Brother Saul. Yes! Ananias called him that, without a trace of guile.

Yield to Spirit, and in come usable ideas that develop themselves into action. Look to Love, and practice kinder ways of caring for yourself and your community.

bound to the hands which mindlessly round the face of the clock or crossing off cages on calendar pages is not God's good time — time undone by eternity. Mary Elizabeth G.

Go beneath the surface. Expose every root of error.

Take time out from the personal maneuvering, the push-and-shove syndrome of life-gamesmanship. Instead, rest in the revealed certainty of secure success as God's unpressured, out-of-time, eternal idea! Steven Alan Avey.