118:8.2 Mortal man is a machine, a living mechanism; his roots are truly in the physical world of energy. Many human reactions are mechanical in nature; much of life is machinelike. But man, a mechanism, is much more than a machine; he is mind endowed and spirit indwelt; and though he can never throughout his material life escape the chemical and electrical mechanics of his existence, he can increasingly learn how to subordinate this physical-life machine to the directive wisdom of experience by the process of consecrating the human mind to the execution of the spiritual urges of the indwelling Thought Adjuster.

Patience
The rain today will turn things green.
Plants grow an inch a day, it seems.
As we live and work today, realize that love’s displayed
In many brilliant, hidden ways.

Look for it, and you will see.
The way God does His ministry.
Look beyond the page of books
And you will see the time it took.

The Human Race has been around
For so many years, that it’s profound.
Life evolved, or was it planted?
Is life something that’s invented?

Once Life starts, it tends to grow.
Before we were, it’s hard to know.
Perhaps we’re evolutions end.
Man evolved, or were we sent?

I think life on this world was planted.
And we’re the product that’s intended.
It took much time for life to grow
In the ways now that we know.

Eons, ages, time it took
To mold this sphere on which we work.
We have a destiny unfulfilled.
Twill be exactly as You’ve willed.

Thank You, Father, things occur
Terrible things, but life endures.
Learning how to do Your will
Helps Your love to be instilled.