Poems

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REFLECTION

Luella A. Brewer

Windowpanes will not shineThrough a long and darkened night,But moon and stars and glow of sunMake them reflect the light.
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GOODNESS LEADS ONWARD

Gertrude E. Velguth

I used to call the little things I did—Like unseen favors, simple courtesies,The drying of an eye,Exchange of jolly wit for plaintive sigh—Trivialities,A sort of marking time, till grand realitiesMight start my upward, heavenward, climb.

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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 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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SOLACE

Edith Jane Caslake

Weep not.

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BEHOLDING LOVE'S CREATION

Ruby Lee Corder

Creative Love, whose radiant power has keptThe spiritual universe and man intact,Would never leave His child in dark bereft,For God holds man in Love's divine compact.
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TESTIMONY MEETING

Mollie Ruth Bottoms

"Let your light so shine," the Master said,That men "may see your good works, and glorifyYour Father.
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CHARITY

Mary Lucretia Barker Franklin

The way was steep and night seemed long,But charity rejoiced,In darkness raised Love's triumph song.

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Shared reflections

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A spiritual approach to mental health

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on mental health—and find hope, even healing.

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 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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HOMESTEAD

Pearl Strachan Hurd

I moved into the light,And suddenly I sawThat house was mine.
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"MORE THAN TWELVE LEGIONS OF ANGELS"

Myrtle Daugherty

"Put up again thy sword into his place,"Jesus admonished the impetuous oneStriking in vain defense.
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CHRIST JESUS

Fanny de Groot Hastings

He went a little further—always he wentFurther—outdistancing in more than space—Further in meekness, further in consentTo do the Father's will, further in grace.
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THE HEALING WORD

Marjorie D. Manley

The healing word is gently saidBy those who are through Spirit ledTo understand and to rejoiceThat man reflects the Father's voice.
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WRITTEN IN HEAVEN

Alan W. Thwaites

To those accusing onlookers,The Master spoke no word,But stooped and wrote upon the ground,As though he had not heard.
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THE MEEK IN HEART

Myrtle A. Cash

The soft rebuke—how kind it was—and thenin pure reflection of God's gracethe outstretched hand to ease the hurt;and following fast the tender wordthat turned reproof to heaven's song.