Poems

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RIVER OF LIFE

Margery Todahl Blokhine

As the pure freshness of the melting snowQuickens the wintry woodland to new lifeWith rills innumerable whose crystal flowRipples in secret under last year's leaf,So comes Truth's revelation unto men.
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FAR-FLUNG

Myrtle Daugherty

Peace be multiplied to you!Far-flung through space and time and tonguethis heavenly blessing runs.

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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 NIGHT OF NICODEMUS

Eugene W. Moss

Here I am: helpless, defeated, hopeless.

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THE TENTH LEPER

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

Were they not still lepers at heart—those ninewho turned not back to seek the Lord with signof gratitude?
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INDIVIDUAL UNFOLDMENT

Winifred Fields Walters

For some,a brilliant flashand instant, glad fruition.
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SELF-FORGETFULNESS

Hilda M. Dolman

"Physician, heal thyself.

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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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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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MARTHA OR MARY

Nola Corriene Austin

Luke 10:38-42
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PROXIMITY

Pansy O. Alexander

Truth rolls away the heavy stone,Expels the night,Reveals the omnipresent ChristIn dawn-pure light.
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THEY KNEW IT NOT

Helen Oscar Winfield

When wonder and awe were voicedBy those who came to seeMatter's supposed forceConsume the three,
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HERITAGE OF LOVE

Jeanette LeMoyne

The world, once limited, is wideNow as the sky and the sea,It stretches out on every sideIn its immensity.
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THE VERY STONES

Margery Macdonald Cantlon

The need is here.
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CHANGE OF VIEW

Mary Ruth Duling

I saw myself a mortal, meeting deadlines;I saw my fellowman a judge, and soI felt that I must beat about with fervorAnd rush with haste and frenzy to and fro—Until I caught a glimpse of God's perfection,His wondrous, endless, changeless, loving plan.