Poems

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WORD RETURNED

Margery Macdonald Cantlon

I went out with joy.
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TO A CAPTIVE WHO FREED HERSELF

Gerald Stanwell

We do not know for sureyour young heart's wrestlings in a distant age,nor possibly the pangs of injured pride,the throes of fear, you had to overcome,with loved ones lost, nor the hard rideinto captivity, wrenched from native landto wait as servant, do what came to hand.

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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 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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going to the city

Stephen Thomas Gray

Little feet, big feetall walking different.

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FRIENDLY UNIVERSE

Rosemary Cobham

Since the one MindCreated the universe,None can ever findAny part hostile or perverse.
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RATIONALE

Darren Stone Nelson

("Even ifI knowwho I am
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Where is God?

SYLVIA N. POLING

Here is God, where I am.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

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Anthology of classic articles II

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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 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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THE TENTH LEPER

Ella Mae King

He alone turned back;He alone was grateful:He did not lackThe thankful heart.
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What is Perfect?

SYLVIA N. POLING

Jesus said our Father is perfect, sowe should be perfect, too.
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FROM A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT:

KATHY ELIZABETH GYGAX

Open your door to God,And you open your thought to Love;Be generous with your love for all,And the freedom of Life will be yours;Take heed of the truth in Spirit,And Truth will answer your needs;Be as a tree—
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GOD'S ALLNESS

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

Sometimes, when it seems mocking tears,frightening dreams, and false fearswould accent my smallness,I think of God's allness,and it melts them away—I soar in the wideness of mercy, the tallnessof justice, in boundless purity.
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TAKEOFF

Robert Howard Zeller

O perfect One to whom our prayers ascend,We ask Thee not for any earthly thing.
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SOUND SHELTER

Neil Millar

Typewriters fling noise-pellets at the air;Telephones spurt their little jets of belling;Throughout the city, rumbling, roaring, yelling,Din burns and beats at every thoroughfare.