James Dillett Freeman

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Namaste,

 

For a biographical sketch, and some more gems, please visit URL:

 

http://www.churchoftoday.org/jdfpoems.html

 

Freedom Within

 

How free the eagle who at height

 

Of heaven flings himself in flight,

 

But his high flights has first to start

 

Not in the sky, but in his heart.

 

Likewise with me, how shall I find

 

Freedom if not within my mind,

 

And learn, as thought by thought I try,

 

That I may fall, yet I can fly,

 

and even sometimes rise up free

 

Beyond the highest heights of me.

 

~ James Dillet Freeman ~

 

 

Pattern-Maker

 

I am the Pattern-Maker.

I, God, made a world so infinite

That there is nothing, if you try,

That you may not make out of it.

This is a wonder world; I wrought

It out of nothing and My love,

Yours to reshape it by your thought,

Which is the stuff I made it of.

Love is its secret inmost part,

And you can think and you can feel

And you are mind and you are heart.

Child, only you and I are real.

This world is what it is so you

Can make it beautiful and true.

 

 

 

A poem by James Dillet Freeman

 

 

 

I Am There

 

By James Dillet Freeman

 

 

 

Do you need Me?

 

I am there.

 

You cannot see Me, yet I am the light you see by.

 

You cannot hear Me, yet I speak through your voice.

 

You cannot feel Me, yet I am the power at work in your hands.

 

I am at work, though you do not understand My ways.

 

I am at work, though you do not recognize My works.

 

I am not strange visions. I am not mysteries.

 

Only in absolute stillness, beyond self, can you know Me as I am, and then

but as a feeling and a faith.

 

Yet I am there. Yet I hear. Yet I answer.

 

When you need Me, I am there.

 

Even if you deny Me, I am there.

 

Even when you feel most alone, I am there.

 

Even in your fears, I am there.

 

Even in your pain, I am there.

 

I am there when you pray and when you do not pray.

 

I am in you, and you are in Me.

 

Only in your mind can you feel separate from Me, for only in your mind are

the mists of "yours" and "mine."

 

Yet only with your mind can you know Me and experience Me.

 

Empty your heart of empty fears.

 

When you get yourself out of the way, I am there.

 

You can of yourself do nothing, but I can do all.

 

And I am in all.

 

Though you may not see the good, good is there, for I am there.

 

I am there because I have to be, because I am.

 

Only in Me does the world have meaning; only out of Me does the world take

form; only because of Me does the world go forward.

 

I am the law on which the movement of the stars and the growth of living

cells are founded.

 

I am the love that is the law's fulfilling. I am assurance. I am peace. I am

oneness. I am the law that you can live by. I am the love that you can cling

to. I am your assurance. I am your peace. I am one with you. I am.

 

Though you fail to find Me, I do not fail you.

 

Though your faith in Me is unsure, My faith in you never wavers, because I

know you, because I love you.

 

Beloved, I am there.

 

 

 

(A copy of "I Am There" is now on the moon ... carried there on the Apollo

XV voyage by Astronaut James B. Irwin, and left on the moon for future space

voyagers).

 

 

 

Regards,

 

s.

 

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