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Poems

Prayer for a congregation

From the December 2011 issue of The Christian Science Journal


This grace-filled sanctuary, Love’s domain,
rejects aggressive dreams of mortal sense,
its doors forever closed to what would veil
the cleansing presence of Truth’s clear light.

Bathed in this light no dream of sickness reigns,
no sin nor suffering sense nor fear can claim to be.
No dark phantoms of crippled lives, or arguments
that Life lacks joy, supply, or health,
can enter here, be heard, remembered.

All error’s shadows melt in this pure truth
of Life’s unchanging fullness 
As Love itself removes all inward tears,
and God’s children sing with newly wakened joy.

— John Daniels

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