Poems

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Mary Magdalene

A. JACQUELINE SHAW

Semi-distraught, perchance thou paced the night:Vain to seek counsel from the earth or sky—The town beneath thee dark, or dimly lit,Seeming as if earth's stars below did lie,And up above, the unseeing void of heaven.
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Loving

BUNYAN J. HUNTER

No ill from senses' dreaming,False lights in morass gleaming,If faithful thought is teemingWith love for God and man.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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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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"No death"

ROBERT E. KEY

They tell me he has died;But is he dead?

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The Father's Planting

ELIZABETH HAYWARD GARDNER

Ev'ry plant that my Father plantethMay grow in my garden fair;Ev'ry flower that my Father lovethHath His tender and watchful care.
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Omnipresence

CHARLES C. SANDELIN

Nay , be not sad: thou'rt not alone!E'er came the clouds, how brightly shoneThe sun o'er hill and valley fair:Behind those clouds the sun shines there!Ah, well we know, though mortal senseDoth hide God's holy immanence,Love still is here and guards us well.
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Mary Baker Eddy

EARL MC CLOUD

No thought of self, no seeking after fame;No love of ease or wish for worldly gain;No goal so low! but, striving in His name,She wrought for us; nor thought her labor vain.

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Shared reflections

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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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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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Ascension

BEATRICE CLAYTON

Toward Bethany he led them, home of peace,Sweet human love, pure faith, and answered prayer.
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Progression

NELLE READ

This is the time of unfoldment;All earth heeds the summons of spring.
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Upon the Wave

MARY TRAMMELL SCOTT

Softly the new lightFalls upon sweet Galilee;Gently the true lightBrightens all the sea.
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Gratitude

LILLIAN BARKER DURKEE

Like birds that seek in grateful, loving trustSome belfry tower to rest their weary flight,My thoughts on memory's wings fly to the past,Upon its tower of love and truth alight;
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To a Friend

MINNY M. H. AYERS

How beautiful God's glories are!The blue, blue sky, the silv'ry star,Each budding flow'r, each spreading tree,Breathes of His love for you and me.
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The Shadow of the Almighty

Mary R. Becket

Within God's shadow there is peace eternal,Though, dreamlike, noises of the world go on:For where He is, there must be joy supernal,Which never passes to oblivion.