Questions & Answers

No mortal height nor depth in God's estate— The tallest mountains there have been brought low, The deepest valleys raised to form a great And fertile field, a heavenly plateau. The only heights in His estate are heights Of vision, limitless expanse of seeing; No painful climbs, no hazardous down flights, The only depths are there the depths of being.

Man is no dreamer, waiting for the dawn, Slow twilight or sudden uprush of the sun. Man is forever the individual radiance Of God, the Father of lights, the unsleeping One.

There is no law of sin That can obtain within Love's law of purity; It cannot fetter man With chains of lust, nor can It cleave the unity Of God and man, for each Of us is loved. No breach In Truth can ever be.

Lord , fit me to Thy dextrous, shaping hand As a keen-tempered—as a well-wrought tool; As a well-balanced sickle, as a plane; As a straight-edged and calibrated rule. Buff me and smooth me—burnish me that I May be a polished shuttle for Thy weft.

" No time to spend in praying," you protest, As unsolved problems tempt you to despair. Yet Truth's reply is firm: "That man is blest Who spends time not in protest, but in prayer!".

When angels come we do not hear Wings fluttering; no forms appear To human vision. But we know Their presence in the heart's warm glow, In spiritual strength, in Truth made clear.

Let not one day appear without its tender dawn, Nor night draw nigh but somewhere shines a star. What if long winter cover earth, The waiting heart shall know Its promised spring cannot remain afar.

Two sisters greeted once a well-loved guest. Each wished to honor him.

The golden thread of Truth, which we perceive In silent prayer, Illumes the holy purpose that it weaves And clothes us there. The morning meal which Love prepares we take In silent prayer.

The ages pass; proud empires fall—their names are writ in sand; But time takes nothing from our God, nor stays His mighty hand. His power knows no let nor loss, but with omnipotence Uplifts and heals and frees mankind from all the claims of sense.