I once saw a bush, scintillating with dew,

Just covered with blossoms, as some bushes do;

It stood there serene in its green and white

Happy at just being a heavenly sight.

Not asking a thing – just grateful to live

Completely devoted to what it could give;

Exquisite in beauty – showered in grace,

How peaceful and perfect it fits in its place.

Among friend and foe, it seems only to know

To live and to give and to continue to grow.

The longer I looked, the more I thought,

For I could see now, the miracle it wrought.

It lived and expanded the light in its heart,

Not even once thinking to be some other part.

It followed its plan, its purpose, its will;

It made me imagine how my plan I could fulfill.

The sweet, gentle bush understood concentration,

And lovingly obeyed the plan of creation.

While humanity, with God’s love and flame in its heart

Tries to live for themselves and be something apart.

Not my Will be done Mother/Father God above

But Thy Will forever, in Light and in Love!

 Faith

Faith is the Pure Substance from which is formed in each cherished dream-

A dream that takes form when molded by the mind, which then seems

To manifest as evidence of all things obscured before,

Now fully formed, when drawn as substance from the mind’s extensive store.

When filled with activating love, whose energy can draw

The perfect manifestation of the image we once saw.

Thus does all perfect thought

Become on earth a part

Of Life’s True Dream!