Poems

ONLY NOW

"And God requireth that which is past.

THE LIGHT OF CHRISTMAS

The light that heralds the perfect dayIs the Christ.

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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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"HIS UNSPEAKABLE GIFT"

Beauty fills my life.

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Is it alive?

TWO WHO STOOD BY

No great deeds were theirs, no glory, acclaim,And yet without them, Joshua had no fameNor Moses support for his downfalling handTo halt bold Amalek's advance on the land.

LET THERE BE LIGHT

In blackest night,Intrepid mockingbird,Harbinger of dawn,Is singing the sun over the horizon.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

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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RECOGNITION

Coincidence, you said?

A PSALM

Praise ye the Lord!I am His journeyman.
Had he felt along the walls of ignorance,Invoking tribal gods from out his need,All but his hope withering to impotenceWhile importuning health from barren seed?

POTENTIAL

Fulfilling one's potential.

WHO TOUCHED ME?

I am one who touched you, Lord.

ALONE?

Until I had been aloneIn a land distantFrom family and friends,Surrounded by the insidious and persistentSense testimony ofViolence and hate and fear,And there had felt the presenceOf the supporting thought and prayerOf those who know and love me,So clearlyPresentI nearlyHeard the comforting word—I had not graspedThe omnipresence of Love.