Poems

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Contemplation

STANLEY JOHN YORK

Teach me where I need to go.
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Breakthrough

PEGGY JEAN GOODRUM

Bright light, white, pure, beneficent.

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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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As brother to Zacchaeus*

CORA SLAUGHTER

I climb my sycomore tree,wholly lifted above crude crunch, mundane mutterings,to the free, uncluttered viewI seek.

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Thy will, not mine

KERRY M. KNOBELSDORFF

Ah, the fruitless, formless heaviness of indecision,That oversurging of pros and cons,That final tally of confusionYielding non-answerandStarting all over again.
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A Gadarene testimony

RUTH GUTC

Once I dwelt in the tomb of mental darknessamong the rocks of ignorance, fear, and sin—ranting in despair.
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All there is

ELIZABETH E. VAN HOUSEN

What is my fortune?

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From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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Remove the liability

JOEL MAGNES

We should not ignoreThe good that has gone before,But we must do more.
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You never left home

BETTY REISS

The qualities of God, which you express,Cannot deteriorate, or age, or grow less,Or suffer, or sin, or die,Or be subject to contagion.
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The Christian touch

MARTHA SAGE VANG

Oh, we can quote the pagesAnd be fierce to error's ways;We can talk the absoluteAnd state our case for days;But where's the needed God-embraceThat gives authority?
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Communication

SUZANNE MAHON

God's indestructible, unbrokenchain of love;binding, yet freeing;close-linked, yet ever-expanding;enfolding, yet not restricting.
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I don't want to miss

SCOTT LAURIN SCHNEBERGER

Friends inquire,as friends do,softly,why I refuse offers to drink—for what causeI choose to fast, denymyselfwhat's meant for bliss,and then tooriskoffense.
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Shalom

STANLEY JOHN YORK

How shall I pray to understand true peace—the peace which passeth understanding?