102:3.4 Religious desire is the hunger quest for divine reality. Religious experience is the realization of the consciousness of having found God. And when a human being does find God, there is experienced within the soul of that being such an indescribable restlessness of triumph in discovery that he is impelled to seek loving service-contact with his less illuminated fellows, not to disclose that he has found God, but rather to allow the overflow of the welling-up of eternal goodness within his own soul to refresh and ennoble his fellows. Real religion leads to increased social service.

Discovery
Frost and fog to start the day.
Spring is coming, no delay.
It may hit 50 later on.
Already all the snow is gone.

Green shoots sprouting everywhere.
They promise flowers beyond compare.
If they are in the proper place,
Their nourishment stays right on pace.

Rapid growth, and then a freeze
Might bring green foliage to its knees.
The freeze leaves scars upon green shoots.
But still there’s energy in their roots.

I pray for plants to be well tended
So they develop as God intended.
I pray our weather does not kill
The plants upon the soil we till.

But more than that, I pray for peace.
From war I pray we be released.
If our souls we elevate,
Then wars we’ll never contemplate.

That won’t be right now, for sure.
But towards that goal we must endure.
Encourage inner health compassion
And then the search for God in action.

Thank You, Father, though progress be
Difficult and hard to see,
I know each day does bring us closer.
We’re on the brink where more discover.