Questions & Answers
O man , your wealth is measureless today. I do not speak of worldly goods, or hold The counting true that tells your wealth in gold; For God has taught us all a better way To tell His riches to a needy world.
Joy wakens at the voice of Truth, As wakes the bird to day, And woe that shadowed deep the heart, Defeated, fades away. Joy waked by Truth within thine heart No man can take from thee, For God is Truth, and where God is Joy dwelleth constantly.
Rise up and walk, my brother; It is the mist of doubt That dims discernment and would shut Your real dominion out. Rise up and walk—Love's image Is straight and strong and true; Unfailing strength is ever yours— This seeming is not you.
God's love is ever with us, Wherever we may go Its tender, sweet enfoldment Each moment we may know. It heals the sense of sorrow, And takes away all sin—This loving, radiant presence Which ever dwells within.
"Good to forget," yet better if you have already forgiven The deeds of a brother, once loved, who ceased to abide as your friend; It may be kind to forget, so the past be entombed without sorrow, Yet kinder the living hope that forgiveness holds without end. How great the compassion of God to all who seek for atonement; "Sins flung to the depths of the sea," "transgressions remembered no more," "As far as the East from the West," so far our errors removed; We honor the Father by loving, but by forgiving adore.
WISE is the man who knows, When pressed by human foes, In God to seek repose. But wiser he who lays At God's own feet the praise Received in earthly ways; Who asks that Love divine His human love refine: "Thy holy will, not mine.
"I am the bread of life," the Master said; This is the living truth which makes us free From fear and hunger, knowing we are fed With manna that sustains eternally. Who drinketh of the water that I give— Such were his words—shall never thirst again.
Sincerely do we thank Thee, God, That we may tread where Jesus trod, To where, within the calm of Mind, Our restless heart its home may find. Thus we, with expectation shod, Press on, and leave the world behind.
May I be patient with unreason, I Who am so little reasonable, Lord! Let me be calm before dishonesty, Who am so heedless, often, of Thy Word. Teach me to walk Thy way in tenderness; To know that evil has no life, no part In all Thy kingdom; give me gentleness, And, above all, an understanding heart.
Sure that divine intelligence directs us, We know, and do rejoice, that Love protects us. Our work secure and sweet, the Father guiding, Our life in unity with Him abiding; Our crown, to heal and save, like our dear Master, To claim salvation, even when disaster And worldly might seem powerful to hinder; God's Word, the lamp of Truth, our sure reminder, Revealing light and joy, where sin and sorrow Loomed dark.