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Poems

Inspirational verse submitted by readers.

How big?

Miracles and healings do not come in sizes. Life, Truth, and Love, never sized or measurable, are infinite.

Like Moses . . .

When You call You are near. What You call I will hear.

Constancy

I am fed up with all this depression, I am bored to tears with hopelessness, I am thoroughly sick of the world telling me The world's in a hideous, awful, miserable mess. For see how the good, the lovely, still abide, The sure, sound, spiritual virtues still endure: Trite as they seem, the benefactions stand Safe in God's grace to comfort and to cure.

"Jesus withdrew himself . . . to the sea"

When we withdraw to a quieter shore, we have not abandoned the sinful, sick, and poor to time or fate. Our Christ-compelled choice: that moment to wait on God.

Dragon-dungeoned-me?

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By a pool with five porches

Wilt thou, he asked, "Wilt thou be made whole?" Response utterly devoid of recognition of him who queried, preoccupied with material remedy, with personal aid. The master Christian— undeterred— saw receptivity, purity, perfection.

temptation

baptism—and a dove—commitment! (wait!   and think and ponder now—commitment.

Father-Mother God

Trust in Him— or Her, if you prefer. CAROLYN E.

Flight pattern

What is patience but extended love .

My God will tell me

Will He thunder? Shake my muse with blazoned streaks While I cower closeted From fierce onslaught? No, this time His Word falls softly, Drizzles on the windows of my will, Distills His counsel lightly thought by thought by thought. EVELYNNE B.