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God's love is ever with us, Wherever we may go Its tender, sweet enfoldment Each moment we may know. It heals the sense of sorrow, And takes away all sin—This loving, radiant presence Which ever dwells within.
"Good to forget," yet better if you have already forgiven The deeds of a brother, once loved, who ceased to abide as your friend; It may be kind to forget, so the past be entombed without sorrow, Yet kinder the living hope that forgiveness holds without end. How great the compassion of God to all who seek for atonement; "Sins flung to the depths of the sea," "transgressions remembered no more," "As far as the East from the West," so far our errors removed; We honor the Father by loving, but by forgiving adore.
WISE is the man who knows, When pressed by human foes, In God to seek repose. But wiser he who lays At God's own feet the praise Received in earthly ways; Who asks that Love divine His human love refine: "Thy holy will, not mine.
"I am the bread of life," the Master said; This is the living truth which makes us free From fear and hunger, knowing we are fed With manna that sustains eternally. Who drinketh of the water that I give— Such were his words—shall never thirst again.
Sincerely do we thank Thee, God, That we may tread where Jesus trod, To where, within the calm of Mind, Our restless heart its home may find. Thus we, with expectation shod, Press on, and leave the world behind.
May I be patient with unreason, I Who am so little reasonable, Lord! Let me be calm before dishonesty, Who am so heedless, often, of Thy Word. Teach me to walk Thy way in tenderness; To know that evil has no life, no part In all Thy kingdom; give me gentleness, And, above all, an understanding heart.
Sure that divine intelligence directs us, We know, and do rejoice, that Love protects us. Our work secure and sweet, the Father guiding, Our life in unity with Him abiding; Our crown, to heal and save, like our dear Master, To claim salvation, even when disaster And worldly might seem powerful to hinder; God's Word, the lamp of Truth, our sure reminder, Revealing light and joy, where sin and sorrow Loomed dark.
Our love for Thee unselfed must be. The holy Word of Truth reveals That only unselfed love can see The Christ that saves and heals.
Within, in quiet refuge, I find God, And peace and love that never men could give; In prayerful meditation thought takes wings, Soaring to heights where only love can live. Here evil cannot enter—at the door Truth stands, a watchful sentinel, ashine With holy purpose, wielding its bright sword To guard the temple of the law divine.
When there are days that grow so dark I cannot see the light, He takes my hand and gently leads My faltering steps aright. When sometimes in the mountain climb The way seems rough and steep, His angels bear me safely up And all my ways do keep.