Alone with God? Does that mean hearts forlorn,
Self-pity looking on its wounds, with tear
For human hopes departed, once so dear,
But now, because of many stripes, forsworn?
Ah, no! That was the night, this is the morn!
The emptiness is gone, the fullness here
Of God's great love, so tender and so near,
That now we know, in joy and peace reborn.
Alone with God, then, means no loneliness,
But recognition of a presence wide
And limitless as Life, to wholly bless
Those who, forsaking error, self, and pride,
Rejoice in everlasting holiness,
And now, at one with God, in peace abide.
Poems
ALONE WITH GOD
From the August 1941 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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