Poems

The joy of blessing

May the sun shine in your heart,The rain nurture and refresh,And may you feel God's presenceEach step of the way.

Friendship

Like giving your warmCoat to the strangerWhen both of youAre cold

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

From Overcoming grief

What death does not do

We go on gaining moment by moment in the understanding that God is the only real Life.

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A musical reckoning

The music was the thing tonight that brought a reckoning.

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Like a pearl

Some of you wrote to tell us you enjoyed the article in the March 29, 2004, kids' Sentinel by poet Lyn Hoopes.

Attitude

It's my twelfth double twist,and I've yet to stick one.
Lord, how I long to be carried upon Your wingUnder the radiance of Your Love.

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Where is God when bad things happen?

Have you ever asked yourself where God is when you’re faced with bad news? We invite you to listen to each episode and discover ideas that spark hope and inspiration.

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Where is God when bad things happen?

Have you ever asked yourself where God is when you’re faced with bad news? We invite you to listen to each episode and discover ideas that spark hope and inspiration.

From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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His promise

Fear notWhat may lie ahead.

Child of light

Children of light, he called us! He, who moved as a moonbeam on water unweighted by heavy assumptions of the birth and death and sorrow of dust; Unillusioned by feet of clay, on feet of sight he swiftly came to comfort, teach and heal with hands whose touch outshone old shadows of shame and reached through death-dreams to wake to radiance his brother/sister-beams.

Firm Decision

TodayI take a stand.
Noah's heart.

Gentle strength

when the shadows gather behind youand the valley deepens before your eyes.

In Your eyes

Who taught me right instead of wrong?