Poems

PROVED, UNPROVED

Walls:cement, fieldstone, brick,mud, mosaic—allcrumble under history'srelentless millstone.

BREAD

Scriptural passages have saidthat God's children shall be fedbread.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on a spiritual approach to healthcare.

From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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HARVEST

Some seed will germinateFar sooner than the rest;And early is the growthOf young plant manifest.

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"WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP"

"We shall not all sleep,"We shall not all sigh.

COMMUNION WITH GOD

If but one hour I consecrateTo seek His grace and meditateOn things divine,Established is my day.

OVER THE WALL

This the way out—grow tall!So tall that the wallShrinks round your ankles.

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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.

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

From Faculties indestructible

MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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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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THY WAY

"Shew me now thy way," dear God,For I have lost my own.

"FROM THE FATHER OF LIGHTS"

Your example, oh, your standabove all variableness!Your light becomes an impetusin my rebirth.

LOVE, NOT VENGEANCE

When in the Adam-dream I seeInjustice victimizing me,And vengeance, in the garb of right,Would neutralize my woeful plightYet trail a burden of dismayNo sentient courage can allay;

AWAKENED

Awakened from the dream of painBy Love's sweet healing light,I look back now with gratitudeOn what seemed an endless night.

THE BLISS OF OBEDIENCE

Into the mountain meadow steps the doe,Carefully testing the scents of summer air,Soon satisfied no unfriendly creatures knowThat she is there.

TENDER PERSUASION

Love comes gently,And with guileless artSpeaks freelyTo the ready heart.