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After we published the beautiful and illuminating poem “Love” featured above in this week’s Sentinel online topic, we looked to see what other poems in our archives bear that same wonderful word as their title. There were many, of which we have chosen two. We hope you will accept this compilation of “Love” poetry as a gift of grateful love for you, our readers, at this time when the world so needs to know just how boundlessly God loves each and every one of us.

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August 26, 2019

Family healed of cold symptoms 

Just as summer was getting underway, my husband, our daughter, and I were all showing cold symptoms. I was tempted for a moment to get angry that I seemed unable to heal the situation and that my ongoing prayers hadn’t protected us from getting colds in the first place.

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8/19/19 - The whole world in His hands

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The whole world in His hands

On this episode of Sentinel Watch, we ask three people how they are being moved to pray about the environment. Hear how we can face fears of climate change with more spiritual poise and a greater expectancy of finding solutions.

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8/13/19 - I never thought I’d choose to stop drinking

Authentic takes on timely topics—written by and for teens

I never thought I'd choose to stop drinking

By Lizzie Witney

Drinking was a big part of her social life, but when this writer discovered a deeper form of happiness than she’d ever found while drinking, she decided she might even be willing to give up alcohol. But how would her friends react?

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Exploration of Bible citations from this week’s Bible Lesson

AUGUST 19 — 25, 2019

Subject: Mind

Dive deeper into the history and background of Bible passages from the weekly Christian Science Quarterly® Bible Lessons.

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