Poems

Creativity

I read your poem and I marvelat the gracious flow of thoughtthe healing tonethe bright precision of your dictionand think that I could never matchsuch gentle ingenuity.

Silent prayer

Through heart-filled hush of silent prayerGod's healing touch dissolves despair.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles or download the audio.

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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Prayer

Let me makethe timefor prayer,In a quiet placeset asidefrom all elsethat I do.

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Valuing nursing

We are all in the practiceof nursing.

Obedience

The gentle ShepherdLeads His sheepTenderly, watchfully.

Christliness

Dear God.

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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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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 Conquering hate, enthroning peace

Love's triumph over hate

How can we love when others hate? Prayerful turning to God, divine Love, with the earnest desire to express His qualities under all circumstances will give us strength and ability to do right.

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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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Each trusting step

Holy and secure is the avenueof light—wholly beneatheach trusting step of life.

On waking to morning birdsongs

May I join your chorus?

Gratitude at break of day

I love the way God shows His lovefor me through all the hours of the dayyet never more sothan at the hour of early dawning whenmy thought is inspired to perceivethe spiritual significance in the movingdrama of day's triumphover the power of darkness,

The forsaken garden

The mulberry tree has gone,and the swing where I swung,and the smooth green lawns that I knewwhen the years were young.

Upward flight

The startled water bird leapsSwift as thoughtFrom dreaming on the placid pondTo soaring, onward circling heights.

The Shepherd's arms

Seeing myself in the Shepherd's arms,no lamb more closely tended,I touch the hem of Christ's dear loveand fear's dark night is ended.