Poems

Ready for the go-ahead

When I was fourThey let me ride upon a horse,But held the reins.

Power-full

Is there a power to hold you captive,To break your heart, to cast you out,To take your all,To frustrate hope and deadenWith a storm of killing doubt?

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Anthology of classic articles

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

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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Quod erat demonstrandum

Engulfing fearshivered,said No,

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Early morning prayer

This morning he hoppedon the busandred stocking cap bobbingturned and blew me a kiss.

Keeping score

Are you loving some who will not love you back?

At supper with Lazarus

Alive again! Lazarus walking with us,Talking, eating! Four days in the grave—Dead to us.

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These books healed me

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on how the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy heal.

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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 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 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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The doing of it

I, too, would actboldlyas Jesus taught.

Night flight

I was in a Gethsemane last night—fear crowding, despair crushing—The long soul-search for a way outOf night's illusive fears and mortal threats.

Trusting God, go forward!

Below,The snow, thigh-high,Unyielding in the winter sun.

The wedding

I do.

Jacob's prayer

Hello again.

"But if not ..."

I will not strike a bargain with my God—to love Him if He saves me from the fire.