Poems

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THAT WHICH IS

Doris Kerns Quinn

That God is Lifeseemed reasonable enough,
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DOOR IN THE MARKETPLACE

Joy Dell

A Reading Room doorstands openin the marketplace.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

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

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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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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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 approach to mental health

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on mental health—and find hope, even healing.

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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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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"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?
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WHITE LIES?

Esther M. Scheck Peterson

The self-deceptivehuman mindis—to say the least—color-blind.
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TALL TREE

Stanley John York

Vivid symbolof active gratitudefor Life—
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THE MIRACLE

Kathryn Laney Veazey

We do not pray formiracles as such—only to know beloved sonis free.
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A MAN TOOK UP HIS BED

John Cuno

Whoever lies at Bethesda.
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WAY OF LOVE

Karen Lancaster Wellford

I sat in loveand watchedas day passed into days.