Poems

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"...the form of the fourth"

ELAINE WALLER HUNTER

This fiery furnace,Fueled by lies of dissatisfaction, covetousness, pain, fear,Has lost its power to alarm me.
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Egypt: nourisher of leaders

CAROLYN E. HOLTE

Plotted against, then cast into a pit;sold, then purchased in Egypt by Potiphar;Joseph prospered—even in prison.

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Shared reflections

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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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Guided to supply

ELIZABETH BEAM

For too long just surviving,Adrift with debt, begging hope—O survivor, seek thought-incomeIn Mind, turn to the prophet.

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After Peniel

PHYLLIS STODDARD

I wrestled all night.
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God's child

Beatrice L. Tukesbury

That you're perfect our Father has taught,So know you can do as you ought.
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Prayer for Sunday School

JOYCE NANCY MOSS

Father, I pray that I may seeonly the child who pleases Thee,

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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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 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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To a daughter

EMILY A. SWINNERTON

Motherhood is mothergood—from Mother, God,not mother Eve.
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Association day

CORA SLAUGHTER

is incandescent.
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God-evolved

JEAN WIDDICOMBE

Helter-skelter spiraling earthward,Whirligig wheeling round and around,Bound on an axis man-made,short-lived,Shackled in chains on a pre-set route?
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Awake to reflection

DOROTHY P. SEAGREN

I am awake to reflection!I cannot be duped into a lethargic stupornot knowing which road to take.
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Love unpossessed

MARCEIL RUTH DeLACY

Once love was in a guarded box,A jewel I'd hid away,A precious object—mine, possessed.
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"... the Lord is in this place ..."

VERA SOHR KELLY

No rugged, pillowed stone or shallow sleepshows us that God is always present whereour path seems hidden and our sorrow deep.