Higher Power

Higher Power
By Larry Linville

What is meant by the term “higher power”?
Is it geographic as we point above?
Is it someone “out there” so far away
Or someone so close we can love?

Could we mean a power with more authority?
With more wisdom or judgment than we?
Is it like the next court to whom we appeal
For understanding of what we see?

How does this rank with some lower power –
Which drags us down from below?
Does it make things look good which really are not
And make our progress go slow?

When that higher power becomes real to you
And moves into your heart to reside.
You must move that power from above
And place it deep inside.

With that power deep inside your heart
Compassion is easier to find.
It permeates all the thoughts of your day
And helps your attempts to be kind.

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