Poems

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NOW

Susan Morrison

Let the day openin a light fall:the pellucid roundnessof this forever moment.
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CANA

Betty Reiss

How did he change the water into wine?

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

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

From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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IN GOOD COMPANY

Sandra Luerssen Hoerner

You are part of a great companyof good men who have encountered crises.

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CLIMBING

Carolyn Holbrook Price

Dear Father, may I learnTo make each stone a stair—Each stopping place a stepping place,A place for climbing there.
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I CAN STOP BEING SWUNG

Marguerite McCulley Armstrong

Asleep,sometimes I ride the pendulum.
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THAT WHICH IS

Doris Kerns Quinn

That God is Lifeseemed reasonable enough,

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

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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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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DOOR IN THE MARKETPLACE

Joy Dell

A Reading Room doorstands openin the marketplace.
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LOOK, BE FREE

Holly Mensing

Tottering atop mymental fence,Indecision twists upcommon sense.
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A LAD HERE

Margaret Tsuda

This boy—child or stripling—never mentioned before or afterthis one brief verse.
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"MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE?"

Margaret Singleton Decker

The voice is subtly insistentwith a suggestionsounding reasonableif not entirely validsensible if not entirely wiseor lovingor—say, who is this?
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SCOPE OF LIGHT

Frances Motley Pray

The dark has no dimensions,No caliber outlined;As absence and negationIts nature is defined.
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"IN THE BEGINNING GOD..."

Rosemary Cobham

You said: "I don't see where one can beginTo sort the muddle that I've gotten in;And how can I be sure beyond a doubtThat God is real enough to get me out?