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Beyond Peniel

Seeing your face before me so guileless, so always-have-you-been-my-brother, I know why Jacob wept in Esau's embrace— so heartless he had been so driven by other gods. I know why Jacob wept against that grace.

Be still, my heart

Be still, my heart: you rest in Love divine; God's gracious touch has silenced grief and pain. His timeless Christ has ordered no decline; In changeless being shall your health remain.

No eulogies, please

When you passed away, at first I did not mourn, knowing you already knew—not death, but God's tender care forever and wherever you might be. Yet later whisperings came that though you were fine, I was not, for I needed you and could not live as well without you.

Morning meal*

Come to the books hungry, expecting to be fed— eager to taste fresh ideas and enjoy again long familiar favorites. The feast has been prepared with love and care from family recipes passed down for generations.

"Out of the mouth of babes"

Your sweet innocence, unaware of your demands, Makes me humbly seek direction to give you what I can. In the process of my searching I find out even more About the love that's given to each knocking at the door.

Conflict healed

Eyes of love look right through The angry scene, the nightmare view. Eyes of love find the way To whisk aside the false disguise, In healing grace, beholding you.

Reflection

Deep in the silence I seem to feel the warm smile of a glad creator tenderly reflecting on each diamond detail of His perfect reflection radiant forever smiling in His own image ever perfect ever at peace ever unfolding. CLAUDIUS IVAN PLANIDIN.

God's kingdom is forever

Boundless circumference of divine Principle encloses, contains, and doesn't let go. Here, no hard flat edges of limited horizons restrict us to wearisome ruts or pitfalls of some same old groove.

Between the branches and the vine

My thoughts need composting, Till they become rich with faith lessons and holy worth. Some sins need uprooting.

Direction of thought

More stubborn than his beast Balaam See Numbers 22:21-26 rode a mortal will toward great restriction— matter's promises always run from fat to thin— like water through a funnel. In humble discipline Enoch See Genesis 5:24 walked through Spirit's straight and narrow gate and Mind expanded life infinitely for him like stepping from a tunnel.