Poems

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Fruit of understanding

Margaret Singleton Decker

There came a day I understoodthe often unquenched thirstof heart, a seeming lack of goodfrom first things not put first.
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The right answer

Lucy Chambers Karwell

Am I going to acceptthe clatter of matter,diagnose just how it came,dignify its nonsensewith a name?

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These books healed me

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on how the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy heal.

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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"Immortal cravings"*

Marty E. Burwell

Cannot be fed by nouvelle cuisinematerial statusor yet another trip,for the heart's deeper yearnings arefed only by the bread of Life,the practical understanding of Truth,the angel food of Love,which change the base ofthought and life from flesh to Spirit,nudging life ever upwardtoward the ever-at-homespiritual idea forever at onewith the all-embracingFather-Mother God.

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To the wakeful one

Mary Elizabeth Leever

If in the past-midnight darkness nagging unhealedworries angers fearssorrows pains doubtsfrom which your up-and-at-'em/off-and-runningdaytime busying successfully (you thought)cloaked and shielded younow—unbidden—prick you to uneasyall-unwilling half-awakeness,why lingerwallowing, drifting, resisting, postponinginevitable confrontationthe active Christ in you demands?
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A little prayer

Victor G. Lewis

Ah, patient God,if we but knewwith deeper consciousnesshow good You are, how true,that we might bind ourselveswith stronger tiesto Love's great heart.
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When?

Dorothy Marie Moran

As thoughts of limitation builtwalls of gloom,I turned to my Bible and found only.

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Shared reflections

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Where is God when bad things happen?

Have you ever asked yourself where God is when you’re faced with bad news? We invite you to listen to each episode and discover ideas that spark hope and inspiration.

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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From Faculties indestructible

MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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Continuing call

Jane R. Harwood

Good news, friend! Christ's peacesings its fresh-start message: Wake!Rejoice! Man is free!
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Horizon

PATRICIA S. KELSON

Look yonder.
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What do I ask when I pray?

Faith Walsh Heidtbrink

What man.
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Steadfast Love

Ellen Cullen

Steadfast Love,that's what You are,my Father and my friend.
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Thought for raiment

Sally Seagull Johnstone

These children weavethrough the warp of my prayerskeins of what they really areshuttling through my heartfrom tree house to closetfrom faucet to swingsfrom attic to cellarmy loom all day long singsImmanuelImmanuelImmanuel—not demandingI unthreadthis handiwork of hometo tabernacle with God—but letting all I dofor His little onesenlarge the borders of loveseamlessly.
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That's entertainment!

Madora McKenzie Kibbe

What a terrible party!I had invited into my home.