Questions & Answers
Wonderful Father, I pray that You make a home in my heart. Open the way for me to take, and help me to start.
Welcome to this brave new day, to this Love-prepared hour, this God-given moment While here rests the wounded heart, here at hand is the bright, narrow way open to the sanguine hopes unspent. As you lean on divine Love's arm you see all are in the way, safe, and comfort flows from faith in Christ's revealing, healing balm.
Will you go? Will you do it? Be in the world yet separate from it? Be seen washing feet? Your wellspring—Christian Science—is pure and deep; The way, pointed out by Christ — complete. "Enter into thy closet.
I once wondered, Truth is so vast, so infinite: How can I know enough of it to be able to heal? How much of God's Word must I master, I've asked myself, before I'll impart blessed comfort and relief? But then I thought of David, a simple shepherd boy— and of Goliath, arrogant fear that loomed so large! A brook full of stones, I recalled, and five chosen by David, but only one was needed to slay that fear . Then I began to see the sum total of that boundless Truth, figured by the entire collection of stones in the brook.
Sweeter than choice nectar that draws the searching bee; Surer than returning spring with birdsong's harmony; Brighter than sun's blazing orb at its most potent hour; Gentler than distilling dew refreshing leaf and flower; Stronger than prevailing wind that stirs the yielding sea— Is God's ever-present love enfolding you and me.
I ponder many times each day The great wonder called love; It's stronger than the strongest steel, More tender than a dove. The Bible tells us God is Love, The fount whence comes all life; And in this Love divine there is No fear, disease, or strife.
When each blade of grass is distinct, when every hair of your head counts, when law's jot and tittle hold import, and the joints and marrow are searched, See Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health , p. 70; see Luke 12:7; see Matt.
Lord, I long to be more like Moses, Whose obedience was not displaced. Teach me how to live Your law, And know You face to face.
When I am still and listening , I hear the immortal message breathed through the ages, as the call of my own name .
As petals open to the light with plan and purpose stirred, my thought can be in posture right, responsive to God's Word. Not mere wish, or idle pose, it shows me good to do; for just as beauty comes to the rose, Truth uplifts my view.