167:2.4 The next day all of the apostles engaged in the philosophic exercise of endeavoring to interpret the meaning of this parable of the great supper. Though Jesus listened with interest to all of these differing interpretations, he steadfastly refused to offer them further help in understanding the parable. He would only say, “Let every man find out the meaning for himself and in his own soul.”

Today’s Highway
Below the zero mark today.
Inside is where it’s safe to play.
The outside air will freeze your tail
But well prepared, we will not fail!

On our missions, one and all.
We choose to move and climb, not fall.
As we climb perspectives change.
A higher viewpoint comes in range.

As we climb, we can see more
Something’s changing in our core.
Unconscious of the time of growth,
It is within and not remote.

Inside you there is a spark.
Let it guide as you embark
On this journey of the day.
Let it show you God’s good way.

In this world, the gears are set.
God’s the driver of this jet!
He has plans for us to soar
As He Divines our inner cores.

As we turn ourselves to Spirit,
God hears all and tries to steer it.
He tries to help us see Him better
And direct us to His splendor.

Thank You Father, help me be
My best, as You have plans for me.
I will always try to choose
A path where love can be infused.

1:0.6 This is the true meaning of that divine command, “Be you perfect, even as I am perfect,” which ever urges mortal man onward and beckons him inward in that long and fascinating struggle for the attainment of higher and higher levels of spiritual values and true universe meanings. This sublime search for the God of universes is the supreme adventure of the inhabitants of all the worlds of time and space.

Where are You?
Some melting will occur today
As temperatures rise throughout the day.
A warmer trend is what’s forecast.
The colder air just couldn’t last.

Change is something that’s a constant.
The way we’re going is important.
You can choose the way you go—
Find love in the things you know!

Let God determine your direction.
Search for Him and His perfection.
Your purpose you reveal each day.
Let it be that God holds sway!

As you begin your search for God,
He’s been there on the paths you’ve trod.
Look within where souls are built.
A flower’s there, don’t let it wilt!

A soul needs love to nourish its roots.
And love within your heart springs shoots.
They flower as you follow Him.
He dissolves all of your sins.

The God within you has a plan.
For you and also every man!
Every person under God
He created for their job!

Thank You Father, for Your plan.
Love will spread throughout this land.
Patience with how long it takes,
Enhances all the love we make.

1:0.6 This is the true meaning of that divine command, “Be you perfect, even as I am perfect,” which ever urges mortal man onward and beckons him inward in that long and fascinating struggle for the attainment of higher and higher levels of spiritual values and true universe meanings. This sublime search for the God of universes is the supreme adventure of the inhabitants of all the worlds of time and space.

Where are You?
Some melting will occur today
As temperatures rise throughout the day.
A warmer trend is what’s forecast.
The colder air just couldn’t last.

Change is something that’s a constant.
The way we’re going is important.
You can choose the way you go—
Find love in the things you know!

Let God determine your direction.
Search for Him and His perfection.
Your purpose you reveal each day.
Let it be that God holds sway!

As you begin your search for God,
He’s been there on the paths you’ve trod.
Look within where souls are built.
A flower’s there, don’t let it wilt!

A soul needs love to nourish its roots.
And love within your heart springs shoots.
They flower as you follow Him.
He dissolves all of your sins.

The God within you has a plan.
For you and also every man!
Every person under God
He created for their job!

Thank You Father, for Your plan.
Love will spread throughout this land.
Patience with how long it takes,
Enhances all the love we make.

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149:2.14 On both friends and foes he exercised a strong and peculiarly fascinating influence. Multitudes would follow him for weeks, just to hear his gracious words and behold his simple life. Devoted men and women loved Jesus with a well-nigh superhuman affection. And the better they knew him the more they loved him. And all this is still true; even today and in all future ages, the more man comes to know this God-man, the more he will love and follow after him.

Groundhog Futures
The sun will shine as morning comes.
This world revolves, then day is done.
One revolution marks each day.
The March of Time goes on its way.

As we live, we go through time.
We scrub ourselves so so we can shine.
Improving in our given station.
Uniting each and every nation?

The groundhog certainly sees his shadow.
The sun will shine without bravado.
Little heat but lots of light
And yet it’s colder come the night.

We’re not yet in the Spring of life.
This world is gripped by Winter nights.
But as we progress, Spring will come.
This world revolves around its sun.

Someday our “Social Spring” will come.
Love will flower, they’ll be no guns.
We’ll unite to do God’s Will.
And with our souls, God’s Love will fill.

Someday the nations will unite. .
In the future, they won’t fight.
Harmony will sing its song.
We’ll look for ways to right our wrongs.

Thank You Father, for this time.
Your Will will take us to Divine.
But first, we must decide to be
And work towards Love’s reality!

100:2.7 Jesus portrayed the profound surety of the God-knowing mortal when he said: “To a God-knowing kingdom believer, what does it matter if all things earthly crash?” Temporal securities are vulnerable, but spiritual sureties are impregnable. When the flood tides of human adversity, selfishness, cruelty, hate, malice, and jealousy beat about the mortal soul, you may rest in the assurance that there is one innerbastion, the citadel of the spirit, which is absolutely unassailable; at least this is true of every human being who has dedicated the keeping of his soul to the indwelling spirit of the eternal God.

Inner Shelter
I’m glad I’m inside where it’s warm.
Outside the winter is the norm.
We have learned to build our homes
So we stay warm when cold has grown.

We’re in the winter of our cycle
Designed, I’m sure, by Master Michael.
Designed with the whole world in mind.
A place for all by His design.

Places where it’s always warm
Though beset with many storms.
Likewise, places always cold.
Life there seems to be on hold.

But in the middle temperate places
Life evolves for many races.
Seasons change and alternate.
As time evolves, we see our fate.

Life exists, and we find ways
To lead productive lives today.
How we define the things we do
Defines our Spirit’s inner truth.

Attitude, what’s that about?
It directs – we choose our route.
Attitude can miss direct
Our choices from desired effects.

Thank You Father for all help.
I know, in fact, most are indwelt
With Your help, we will evolve.
And in the end all problems solved!

166:3.8 Even the apostles were unable fully to comprehend his teaching as to the necessity for using spiritual force for the purpose of breaking through all material resistance and for surmounting every earthly obstacle which might chance to stand in the way of grasping the all-important spiritual values of the new life in the spirit as the liberated sons of God.

“Breaking”
A cold and gloomy winter day.
The news is on. What do they say?
Who is competent, and who is not?
Do we believe what we’ve been taught?

With skeptic ears I listen to
The various pundits on the tube.
They’re vying for my ears attention.
They spread more fear than love’s affection.

I hope I know the current facts.
I know God’s love has all our backs!
Faith He knows what we all need
In the face of abject greed.

Who has got the favorite view
Of the lake and city, too?
A higher floor for your outlook,
Does this help with your input?

Your inner life can use your help!
Meditate within yourself.
Quiet beauty, undisturbed,
Promotes a peace within that works.

There’s an entity inside.
It wants to be your Holy Guide.
You know it every time you try.
It’s something that you can’t deny!

Thank You Father, it’s You there.
Somehow You’ve made me more aware.
Thank You for Your revelation!
It must be spread to all the nations!

52:7.15 All the worlds of Satania can join in the hope of the one who wrote: “Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless.”

Love the Future
Inches of snow upon the ground.
My eyes bring images that astound.
My eyes brought glory to my yard.
Might have to shovel! That will be hard!

With beauty, we have been so blessed.
To look for beauty’s Spirit no less.
A lesson found in ways of thinking.
The Spirit grows, It’s never shrinking!

Look for beauty when ugly seems
To rule this world and ruin our dreams.
There’s beauty in the Hands of God.
In the future war’s outlawed!

Always a method to this madness.
Though often times we’re filled with sadness.
I guess the future’s worth the tears.
We might not see with our short years.

Impatience with the Ways of God
Is fostered by the Techno-Mob.
Exponential laws increasing,
Always faster, never ceasing!

Time it takes to tune and turn
Towards the truth, takes time to learn!
Too bad we can’t lead longer lives.
More truth perhaps would then survive.

Somehow I know! I thank You for
All this world, which I adore!
Love’s the greatest force there is.
Love unites! It will persist!

81:2.17 The older river races made their huts by setting tall poles in the ground in a circle; the tops were then brought together, making the skeleton frame for the hut, which was interlaced with transverse reeds, the whole creation resembling a huge inverted basket. This structure could then be daubed over with clay and, after drying in the sun, would make a very serviceable weatherproof habitation.

Weatherproof
Winter’s truly here today.
A blanket white is on display.
No chance of melting this away
Until spring weather does hold sway.

This winter has been very warm.
In the South, there’s many storms.
Is California washed away?
No, not yet! Someday it may!

The change in weather’s hard to predict—
So diverse in its effects.
Disruptions when a structure fails—
Not built to withstand more than gales

We need to change the way we build.
More expensive? The market’s chilled.
But if we just continue on,
What we build will soon be gone!

Making structures weatherproof
Will always be a sought for truth.
Hurricane and cyclone winds
Without some shelter, make us cringe.

First we will electrify
Homes and cars to satisfy
Our need to stop effects of warming.
Reduce emissions is the warning!

Thank You Father, we’ll endure
And knowledge will be gained, for sure.
We will improve the ways we live.
Get more in tune, learn to forgive.

160:1.14 In a continually changing world, in the midst of an evolving social order, it is impossible to maintain settled and established goals of destiny. Stability of personality can be experienced only by those who have discovered and embraced the living God as the eternal goal of infinite attainment. And thus to transfer one’s goal from time to eternity, from earth to Paradise, from the human to the divine, requires that man shall become regenerated, converted, be born again; that he shall become the re-created child of the divine spirit; that he shall gain entrance into the brotherhood of the kingdom of heaven. All philosophies and religions which fall short of these ideals are immature. The philosophy which I teach, linked with the gospel which you preach, represents the new religion of maturity, the ideal of all future generations. And this is true because our ideal is final, infallible, eternal, universal, absolute, and infinite.

What’s Ahead
The snow is frozen, all crust like.
The temps did dip throughout the night.
The slushy snow froze where it lay
And now obstructs our walk today.

The crispness of the morning air
Fills our lungs, and gives us flare.
Every day we’re more aware.
Your presence shows You really care.

We must look to see and find
An inner presence that’s Divine!
Life is simpler when we’re blind.
Pretend our lives don’t show You’re kind.

Turn a blind eye unto God?
And yet in life, you try to solve
The question of what life‘s about.
Stop right now. Observe your route!

Take a look at your direction.
Search and look – do your inspection.
What controls how you decide?
You can direct how well you ride.

God’s way ahead might seem too much.
You want a shortcut – way to fudge.
God knows all your thinking habits.
His way is never ever static!

Thank You Father for Your plan.
Someday love will fill this land!
Every day there’s progress made.
There’s more of us. We’ll never fade.

195:10.18 Christianity is an extemporized religion, and therefore must it operate in low gear. High-gear spiritual performances must await the new revelation and the more general acceptance of the real religion of Jesus. But Christianity is a mighty religion, seeing that the commonplace disciples of a crucified carpenter set in motion those teachings which conquered the Roman world in three hundred years and then went on to triumph over the barbarians who overthrew Rome. This same Christianity conquered – absorbed and exalted – the whole stream of Hebrew theology and Greek philosophy. And then, when this Christian religion became comatose for more than a thousand years as a result of an overdose of mysteries and paganism, it resurrected itself and virtually reconquered the whole Western world. Christianity contains enough of Jesus’ teachings to immortalize it.

God’s Gear
I slept in. The night was short.
Stayed up too late, that’s why of course.
But now I’m up and greet the day.
I’ll do my best to make my way

After I have read from You,
I pray to what’s inside, then do.
As I think the path is best.
That’s my choice upon this test.

Mistakes are made at every moment
By everyone, we are components
Of potential perfect people.
Spiritually, we all are equal!

As I go about today
I look around at what’s displayed.
Seeing the people as I pass by
And understanding when I try!

So then, if you do understand.
You’ll see much good is in demand!
As time flows and you pass by
Much can be done if you just try.

Habits developed when eyes were closed,
Must change when what results is shown.
Changing habits is not easy.
But one then sees how they’ve been creepy.

Thank You, Father, throughout this day.
I’ll walk the path — the better way.
I’ll do my best to see and hear
And put myself into Your gear.

103:1.6 The realization of the recognition of spiritual values is an experience which is superideational. There is no word in any human language which can be employed to designate this “sense,” “feeling,” “intuition,” or “experience” which we have elected to call God-consciousness. The spirit of God that dwells in man is not personal – the Adjuster is prepersonal – but this Monitor presents a value, exudes a flavor of divinity, which is personal in the highest and infinite sense. If God were not at least personal, he could not be conscious, and if not conscious, then would he be infrahuman.

Work to Unite
Winter days seem all too gray.
No surprises for the day?
We can choose what we will do.
I am sure there’ll be surprises too!

There’s promise in the day ahead.
Things to do – go where I am led.
Try to find a way to love.
Problems fade as they are solved.

Saturdays have lots of sports
Some played on fields, some played on courts.
But really mostly on TV
Is where we play incredibly!

TVs have captured our attention.
Ways of thinking have us sectioned.
Every day the way we listen
Can help promote our coalition.

Promote all those who cross the aisle.
Cooperation is on trial!
Party lines have caused gridlock.
We need to gather in the flock!

We can unite o’er Spirit goals.
Achieve new peace as our souls grow.
Directed by our inner light
Gives me faith, we can unite!

Thank You, Father for this day.
My eyes are peeled, You show the way.
Adventures as we live today
Will help unite us, this I pray!

130:6.2 “I well know you wish to be left alone with your disconsolation; but it would be neither kind nor fair for me to receive such generous help from you as to how best to find my way to Phenix and then unthinkingly to go away from you without making the least effort to answer your appealing request for help and guidance regarding the best route to the goal of destiny which you seek in your heart while you tarry here on the mountainside. As you so well know the trails to Phenix, having traversed them many times, so do I well know the way to the city of your disappointed hopes and thwarted ambitions. And since you have asked me for help, I will not disappoint you.”

“Hmmmm”
Today the clouds do rule the sky.
When night comes, the snow will fly.
I wonder when it’s time for bed,
How much my work is Spirit led?

My temperament could be improved!
When threatened no need but just groove.
Try to learn, adapt and change,b
Let your inner Spirit train.

You know inside you want to be
A different person ultimately.
A better woman or a man
Better able to understand.

A point in life can sure be reached
When it’s like your soul’s been breached.
But when courageous Faith is used
You become just like you choose.

So choose to be as you so choose!
God exists! He’ll never lose!
With mistakes you’ll always pay
Live within the Now today!

You can’t change what has gone by.
Within the Now is where you try.
The struggle to be more like God—
Is that a path that’s seldom trod?

Thank You Father, I will do.
And live the Now— accept what’s new
Realize I’m not alone.
My time with you, I know has grown!

INSPIRATIONAL STORY FOR THIS POEM

103:1.6 The realization of the recognition of spiritual values is an experience which is superideational. There is no word in any human language which can be employed to designate this “sense,” “feeling,” “intuition,” or “experience” which we have elected to call God-consciousness. The spirit of God that dwells in man is not personal – the Adjuster is prepersonal – but this Monitor presents a value, exudes a flavor of divinity, which is personal in the highest and infinite sense. If God were not at least personal, he could not be conscious, and if not conscious, then would he be infrahuman.

Work to Unite
Winter days seem all too gray.
No surprises for the day?
We can choose what we will do.
I am sure there’ll be surprises too!

There’s promise in the day ahead.
Things to do – go where I am led.
Try to find a way to love.
Problems fade as they are solved.

Saturdays have lots of sports
Some played on fields, some played on courts.
But really mostly on TV
Is where we play incredibly!

TVs have captured our attention.
Ways of thinking have us sectioned.
Every day the way we listen
Can help promote our coalition.

Promote all those who cross the aisle.
Cooperation is on trial!
Party lines have caused gridlock.
We need to gather in the flock!

We can unite o’er Spirit goals.
Achieve new peace as our souls grow.
Directed by our inner light
Gives me faith, we can unite!

Thank You, Father for this day.
My eyes are peeled, You show the way.
Adventures as we live today
Will help unite us, this I pray!

84:7.26 Civilization regards the parents as assuming all duties, the child as having all the rights. Respect of the child for his parents arises, not in knowledge of the obligation implied in parental procreation, but naturally grows as a result of the care, training, and affection which are lovingly displayed in assisting the child to win the battle of life. The true parent is engaged in a continuous service-ministry which the wise child comes to recognize and appreciate.

Your Role
A rainy day, rain turns to snow.
No matter what, our “go” is slow.
Still there’re things that must be done.
I am up and day’s begun.

As dark turns to filtered light,
The morning sun today’s not bright,
We can see, but colors gray
Our light inside can show the way.

There’s good around us we should do.
You show a path that is so true.
Inner self illumination
Helps peace promotion through all nations.

Look inside, and then decide.
Your inner self can help you glide.
The answer to life comes to you.
As kindness and your love shines through.

Live within, then you will find.
A life without that truly shines
First things first – your inner life.
Your time with God can turn you ripe!

As we ripen under God,
Some of us are often called
To learn to love effectively
And change ourselves internally.

Thank You Father, we commit
Ourselves to you. We’re in your net!
And today as life unfolds,
You lead us to new loving roles