Poems

LET US GO FORTH

Let us go forth to seek divine adventure:New joys, new opportunities to bless.

SPARE TEXTBOOK

Just now we found it, somehow hid away—"Why, here's a copy we can let them read!"How many grateful borrowers have heldThese truth-revealing pages, fragile, worn,Replaced long since, but valiant still for duty.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on mental health—and find hope, even healing.

From Place

"The secret place of the most High"

We learn in Christian Science that God is infinite Truth, Life, and Love and that He imparts to His creation only that which is completely beneficial.

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EMERGENCE

The shell of self encased me,Held me bound.

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AS I WAIT

Here, where I am, is all I need of good;And as I wait on God to me unfoldsAll affluence, all beauty, and all grace.

AWAKENING

Are you dissatisfied and bowed with griefBecause you lack so very many things?

OUR DAY

Our day is not a period of time,Measuring footsteps into age and blight,But an unfoldment of God's truth sublime,Which knows no waning sun or darkening night.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles or download the audio.

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Anthology of classic articles

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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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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UNFETTERED

God measures time for us as good unfolds,And He reveals and governs all our way.
I could not go to meet my foe,When Love, my Father-Mother,Came to my aid; then, unafraid,I went to greet my brother.

TRUTH'S ANSWER

In loneliness and anguishMy heart cried out to Thee:"I thought Truth's way was easy,Unfettered, calm, and free.

HIS GIFT

As children will, first time to circus brought,Believe themselves in present paradise,Dazzle from splendor out of shoddy wrought,Find quintessential truth in barkers' lies,

MY WORK

I do not work for personsIn a building of iron and stone;My service is not measuredIn the number of things I own.

AT A CHURCH MEETING

There was Diotrephes.