Poems

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Photo flash

Mario Tosto

Friend, you flash a photo of yourselfAs a five-year-oldAnd we chuckle at the changes.

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Dear Father

Mary S. Henderson

Wean me from reliance onthe outward sense of things.

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Answering the king

Nancy Hormel Reinert

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.

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The relationship

Mary J.Steele

If I asked You for advice and did not take it,would You still tell me whenever I asked You what to do?

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Mightier is God than the cosmic swirlOf galaxies in motion;Mightier than the swift decayOf atoms in explosion:Mind guides the heavens' boundless whirl—The massive mobile of His skill—Wields Spirit's energies that playIn radiant patterns of His will.

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The no-ending song

Fern-Rae Abraham

We've been taughtto believeour livesare as delicateas bubbles that rideon the incoming tide.

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Working things out

Patricia P. Wilson

Is it reallya question of money,or a matter of trust—of holding steadfast,making God our stay?

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Elise's prayer

Elise Rindfleisch

I love God andGod loves me.

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Heaven's home

Susan Dane Gilboy

Home is the heart's song,Love its rhyme and reason;foretaste of heaven's love,wedded to earth's need.

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Persistent fountain

Margaret Singleton Decker

The joy so often bubbling upin laughter, song, clear sense of right—what but the "runneth-over" cup,filled constantly with Soul's delightand spilling from the grateful heartinto living's every part!