Radiant as sunsets, beautiful as blessings

photo by Gisbert Rentmeister

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me. --

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God. (Meister Eckhard)

A radiant sunset, beautiful as blessings when they take their flight, dilates and kindles into rest.  Thus will a life corrected illumine its own atmosphere with spiritual glow and understanding.

The pent-up elements of mortal mind need no terrible detonation to free them (Mary Baker Eddy)

- The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

PEACE

My tears are flowing

Like a gentle stream

Over cheeks and lips

As I am touched by Your

Gracious Words, and You bid

The inner tumult to cease,

Teaching me, dear God, Your peace.

I in gratitude to You,

O Beloved! I can see

There I was to be

In sadness, and a

Loss of tranquility—

Through a silent prayer

My heart was safe from enmity,

Rising up again to You,

Peace to all, and to him and me -- it sang

Of Your immediacy, and

Will not let me go astray

But fulfills in its silent way:

“Let no vacuum ever there be.”

Your dear love always reaches me

Like the fullness of a morning beam,

I am free of tears, and all shadows flee.

2. picture, and poem by EM

with love

Eva-Maria