Here I was—
thinking I was one
of a tiny minority,
working to love God with all my heart
and soul
and mind,
and my neighbor as myself—
struggling valiantly
against incredible
and almost overwhelming
odds:
until divine Love, in its gentle,
irresistible way,
penetrated the crumbling walls
with tender rebuke:
"If you love God as much as you profess,
how can you believe He could produce
an idea resistant to Himself?
And if you really love your neighbor
as yourself,
how can you see an antagonist?"
Chastened,
humbled,
I gladly rejoined the majority
—all,
in Mind, under the government
of God.
Poems
Awakening
From the April 1993 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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