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.

Audio Collection

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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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 healthcare

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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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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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"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.