Poems

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LESSON FOR TODAY

June McCleneghan Fowler

Accept no penalty todayFor failures in the past.
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AT CHRISTMAS TIME

Margery Macdonald Cantlon

Maybe oxen breathed warmlynearby, watching,hearing the new cryas Mary tendedher firstborn son,as Joseph protectedthe infant one.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

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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IS THERE A DAVID?

Marjorie Center Thomson

Is there a David for this battlefield?

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UNCALENDARED

Peter J. Henniker-Heaton

Man has no hour of birth, no natal momentwhen stars inclementcan fasten upon him some dark implacable fate.
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THE FAMILY OF MAN

Esther M. Scheck Peterson

The infinitevarietyof His divinefamily—everywhere—up and down,near and farand all around,each uniqueas a star—precious jewels!
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THE CHRIST COMES

Margaret Tsuda

to each of us.

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Anthology of classic articles III

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

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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 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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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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FLIGHT PLAN

Maxine Le Pelley

Rated pilot learns to flyThrough viewless, scudded skyBy trusting instruments,Not eye.
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PRAYER FOR OUR CHILD

Isobel Anne Anable

Creative Spirit,ageless, new,I pray to seeour child in Your likeness, not ours,forever known and loved by You.
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TIMELESS GROWING

James Floyd Huston

It wasn't time that let usleave behind the little deathsthat hauntedand then were goneor carried on in other formsand tauntedtill their tauntings held no meaning.
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Sentinels

Hazel Harper Brandner

A soldier makes his own reportAnd calls each hour that all is well,When he patrols a camp or fort.
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SOLUTION

Kathryn Laney Veazey

Mind knowsno doubt,no clamor fordecisive way.
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STOP GO

Marilyn Utter Gardner

Whenever I'm sadOr have thoughts that are bad,I can STOP and thinkOf God's love for me.