Poems

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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 spiritual approach to healthcare

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

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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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?

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These books healed me

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on how the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy heal.

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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 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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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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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.
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STRICT ADHERENCE

Sara May Helder

Press to the real.