Poems

THE LIGHT OF TRUTH

I Stand on higher ground today in praiseOf Thee: all beauty, goodness, truth, and love.

THE LITTLE MAID

By companies they came and took me captiveand brought me to the house of him whose wifeI now must serve—a Syrian!And I?

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Shared reflections

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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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THE ELECT

We are too richTo be poorWho have the pearlBeyond all price.

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THE VALLEY OF DECISION

Think not of small import today's decision.

UNITY

The world is not in night;Clearly the growing lightReveals the pattern of the Father's plan.

YOUR PART

Perchance your longing eyes perceiveWhat other workers in the Field achieve;You seek a part in honor and in fameTo bless the world, enrich it in Christ's name.

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Anthology of classic articles II

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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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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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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RESURRECTION

I stood and weptAnd sorrowing viewed the scene:Man fallen,Caught in the maelstrom of earth's woe,Sick, sinful, tired.

CERTITUDE OF VISION

Who finds the inner brightness of the SoulPuts off the hindering whither and the why,Puts on the ancient yea—the certain, whole,Unalterable, and eternal aye, and aye.

GOD'S GRACE

God's grace as sunshine is upon the earth todayThat bringeth forth the bud unto the perfect flower.

DUTY

Do I see someone struggling?

THE OPEN DOOR

What is that open door which God has set,And which no man can shut?

THE FATHER'S BARN

We need to build no greater barns to storeThe increase of our wordly stocks and waresIf we remember that the threshing floorRelieves the husbandman of worldly tares.