Poems

FOLLOW AND REJOICE

How can I follow in the Master's way?

METAPHYSICAL VIEWS

All through that rainy nightgreat dogwoods, pink and white,were blooming.

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From Conquering hate, enthroning peace

Love's triumph over hate

How can we love when others hate? Prayerful turning to God, divine Love, with the earnest desire to express His qualities under all circumstances will give us strength and ability to do right.

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PURIFYING OUR ENVIRONMENT

Moral decadenceand sensual impurity—are these not the basic causesfor overpopulationand world pollution?

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SHARING

I made complaint to God:"You gave me precious seed, but only sandto plant them in! I'll share with friendto whom you gave a richer land!"
If one's own pardon one has grace to win,God's gift, reflection, glow where sense had been;A brother's lark of hope and faith, on wing,Might rise and rise, and thence more bravely sing.

PEACEMAKERS

Each is a star,shining resplendently in the heaven of Soul;Each may flower,bathed in spiritual light;Every one voicingglad birdsong;All children of Lovebelonging to the one Father, Mind.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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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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From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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THE WALK TO EMMAUS

"Did not our heart burn within us?

THE VERB "TO BE"

I am, he is, thou art;In every land in every tongueThis is the way we startTo claim our being—in the present.

WITNESS FOR TRUTH

Visualizea lofty hall,a judgment seatmagistrate imperially robeddespite irregularities ofaccusation and hour.

"IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD"

God's law is felt in rhythm of the seasons:Spring, summer, autumn, winter.

INTACT

No mortal dreamCan change the factThat God createdMan intact.

THE MEASURE

It seemed a thousand years, yet, in Thy sightThe measure was the watch within the night,Exalting vigils kept, until the day,Defined by light.