Five Poems

The Salesian Missions produce small books that they publish to fund missions work.  I looked them up after reading "Lift Up Your Hearts."  Here are a few examples of the faith-focused poetry compiled in one of them.


Listless moments spent in flight, lost forever, a fool's delight. Lasting moments spent in prayer, saved forever, in heaven's care. Bill Tworney

"Candle of Faith"

Yesterday the day was dark

And washed with mirky streams;

My heart was marked with fitful fare

that spattered on my dreams

Yesterday revealed the past

And no one seemed to care

The hours threaded it with woes

But healing labored there.

Today the candle of my faith

Is held up to shine

In steady trust I forge a path

that time reveals as mine

Today I let my spirit soar

To sing unending song

And if for mercy I must wait

Lord, make me sweet and strong

Roxie Lusk Smith

Hearts that open to the love that is God, feel loved in loving and served in serving.  Edward Gloeggler


"A Light at the End of the Tunnel"
There's a light at the end of the tunnel, a love awaiting me there
All cares and troubles I will leave behind, as I climb the golden stairs
There's a light at the end of the tunnel, meeting my Lord face to face
And I'll be in the home that I long for, saved by His heavenly grace...Helen Parker

"Nobility" by Alice Cary

True worth is in being, not seeming-

In doing each day that goes by

Some little good - not in dreaming

Of great things to do by and by

Whatever men say in their blindness

And spite of their fancies of youth

There's nothing so kingly as kindness

And nothing so royal as truth

We get back our mete what we measure

We cannot do wrong and feel right

Nor can we give pain and gain pleasure

For justice avenges each slight

For good lie not in pursuing

Nor gaining of great nor of small

But just in the doing, and doing

As we would be done by, is all