Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: mike@turing.cs.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: A poem I wrote recently... Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 90 09:05:12 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 25 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Encounter When in this life I seek to find myself, And start without, in things and in the world, Then vainly for the truth does my heart delve, I flag and fail and from my means am hurled. Next I seek to look at my own mind, Looking always for myself within. Introspectively my thought does wind, I never end for I cannot begin. But then the joy without for me does look, And take me by the hand to see the light-- With rapture does eternal love me hook, And force me to surrender without fight! The light of God will always pierce the gloom; With loving joy will I prepare the room! Comments, suggestions, complaints, etc., are welcome. Michael I. Bushnell \ This above all; to thine own self be true LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE \ And it must follow, as the night the day, mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu /\ Thou canst not be false to any man. Telephone: +1 505 242 2329 / \ Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!