Poems

FOLLOW AND REJOICE

How can I follow in the Master's way?

METAPHYSICAL VIEWS

All through that rainy nightgreat dogwoods, pink and white,were blooming.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on a spiritual approach to healthcare.

From Place

"The secret place of the most High"

We learn in Christian Science that God is infinite Truth, Life, and Love and that He imparts to His creation only that which is completely beneficial.

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PURIFYING OUR ENVIRONMENT

Moral decadenceand sensual impurity—are these not the basic causesfor overpopulationand world pollution?

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SHARING

I made complaint to God:"You gave me precious seed, but only sandto plant them in! I'll share with friendto whom you gave a richer land!"
If one's own pardon one has grace to win,God's gift, reflection, glow where sense had been;A brother's lark of hope and faith, on wing,Might rise and rise, and thence more bravely sing.

PEACEMAKERS

Each is a star,shining resplendently in the heaven of Soul;Each may flower,bathed in spiritual light;Every one voicingglad birdsong;All children of Lovebelonging to the one Father, Mind.

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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 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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From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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THE WALK TO EMMAUS

"Did not our heart burn within us?

THE VERB "TO BE"

I am, he is, thou art;In every land in every tongueThis is the way we startTo claim our being—in the present.

WITNESS FOR TRUTH

Visualizea lofty hall,a judgment seatmagistrate imperially robeddespite irregularities ofaccusation and hour.

"IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD"

God's law is felt in rhythm of the seasons:Spring, summer, autumn, winter.

INTACT

No mortal dreamCan change the factThat God createdMan intact.

THE MEASURE

It seemed a thousand years, yet, in Thy sightThe measure was the watch within the night,Exalting vigils kept, until the day,Defined by light.