How can I turn to Love and pray for needs, outlined, exact?
Have I not learned man's need is spiritual?
But rather may I ask all-knowing Mind, "What is it that I need?"
An angel thought reminding me of patience, grace,
Is as before, in answer to my prayer.
Are motives pure? Is self held back, that service may be first
In faithful, fearless ways?
For true it is, the need
For human self to be evangelized, and freed.
Poems
What Is My Need?
From the November 1948 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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