Inspirational verse submitted by readers.
Poems
" One of you shall betray me," said Jesus. And each was sorrowful and asked, "Lord, is it I?" That was the right way.
Wait, my heart, to speak. Words need be holy things sprung from deep-laid seeds of thought to bring fair harvest.
O, the hours stretching to years I have talked about God! Close to the fireside, walking the hills, the words have flowed concerning God and His allness. There is no other Life, no Mind, no Truth, no Love, no consciousness; and man is the very radiance of these, so I have said.
The maple trees, red-budded, stand Against a leaden sky, Their tips a surer promise Than the wind's wild prophecy. O God, may I so rooted be, So grounded, so aflame With love, that winds of winter past Can have no power to chill or blast Buds opening in Thy name.
" Injustice! " speeds from my lips Before I realize the greatest Injustice of all was met with "Father, forgive them; For they know not what they do. " "They die" stumbles from my mouth Until I remember his three days' Work in the tomb has proved the Infinity of Life for every child.
The love you shared is with you now reversing sorrow's treacherous lies; the joys you knew are shining still to rainbow over grief's gray skies. Love's strength you cannot be without; Love's power never fails Her own.
Are you not sons of one Soul, made in God's imaging? His hand moves yours to witness His creating. Now are you all artists for God.
Would that my travel toward the truth Measured but half the flight of wishing's wing! Much closer to the realm of Soul I could have been. No tarrying near regret's dark door.
Through lens of Love I pray to see As Jesus saw, Not broken reeds by storms laid low But holy law Controlling man, forever free From sin and death eternally. My prayer for faith to see and know.
I wished for wings of morning to meet my Lord, For the journey was lengthy, my pathway scored By countless things. Concluding, I saw that He All the winding way had accompanied me— Guarding lovingly, helping me thus to know There's no faraway place where His child must go.