Poems

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Birthday thoughts

Jean Audrey McDonald

We know that we don't need to countOur years, nor search the skiesTo fathom what the future holdsOr where our pathway lies,For good is always right at handIn God's eternal plan.
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Problem solving

Hugh George Eccles

I started out to write a book,

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Anthology of classic articles III

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From Freedom from addiction

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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Christmas

Barbara L. Kelly

Not a birthbut an awakeningto life immortaland unborn.

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Growing up in Christ

Robin Jagel Berg

Despite, because of, stable beginnings.
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Modern shepherds

Dorothy A. Franks

Keeping watch over our thoughtsBy night.
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Aspirations

Thomas O. Poyser

We have aspired to many things—Some of which we've gained.

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Shared reflections

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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 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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From Place

"The secret place of the most High"

We learn in Christian Science that God is infinite Truth, Life, and Love and that He imparts to His creation only that which is completely beneficial.

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Science and Health—the book I treasure

Eleanor P. Humphrey

Companion to the sacred Scriptures isMy dearly loved Christian Science textbook;It makes clear God's treasures of Truth—HisGood gifts, for which I daily love to look.
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A child's bedtime poem

Carol C. Gaetjen

I stop the wiggles, hush the giggles,Get myself all still.
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A true friend

Dorothy Edith Seaman

This poem was sent to the Publishing Society with a note from the author, who said she just had to say "thank you" for the Sentinel.
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Bethesda revisited

Joanne Forman Otto

It could have happened.
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Name and nature

Hugh George Eccles

From Abram to Abrahamand Sarai to Sarah.
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"Shepherd, show me ..."*

Patrick L. Flavin

not themhow to go;not why, but how:for I desire to rise above fear,to ascend beyond valley's shadow,and see as You see,know as You know,to understand I amas You are; to discoverthe unencumbered stridesof an exploring child—for I've always truly been,always will be, and am now,Your perfect child.