Poems

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PETITION FOR GRACE

Sara May Helder

Father, give me awarenessof another's need,Not opaque obsessionwith some routine deed.
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AS I WRAP YOUR GIFT

Jane Marjorie Renner

Knowing you like to read,I give you bookto open books,words to unlock Wordof living Truth.

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Shared reflections

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From Overcoming grief

What death does not do

We go on gaining moment by moment in the understanding that God is the only real Life.

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I WOULD TELL IT

Geoffrey J. Barratt

I soughtthe wit to tell them all,to tell them so weleap, and standon sounder groundthanspeculationplodding ratiocinationmisting imagination.

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RADICAL STEPS

Richard Howard

You can call him what you like—impetuous, brash, outspoken—but once he recognized the Christand heard that command,he did what the others didn't—he stepped out onto the water and walked!He didn't wonder, he didn't worry, he didn't wait—he didn't even look to see if the others were behind him—he just climbed out and walked.
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WILDERNESS

William B. Lynch

Into the wildernessof material standardswent Jesus, to be tried.
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PRACTITIONER TO PATIENT

Godfrey John

Listen, I'm so happyabout this spring—thisbreath of right, this bloom of brightthings through you—

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Anthology of classic articles II

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Anthology of classic articles

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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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NO ADAM-DREAM FOR ME

Doris Lubin

I'm aloneAnd I'm lonelyI prayI stay my thought on God and His ever-presenceStillVoices of silence are shrillThen I read and remember what Adam heard inthat Adam-dream"It is not good that the man should be alone"
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FOCUS

Doris Kerns Quinn

Consideringbut one thing at a timeis focus.
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GRATITUDE TO A FRIEND

Florence A. Roos

You said so many years ago:Keep close to God.
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THE OPEN ROAD

Barbara Dix Henderson

Self-belittlement and false humility:Twin roadblocksSubtly covered upTo look like pointers to unselfishness,Need to be hoisted firmly to one sideto find the road you really want to go.
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A POEM FOR EASTER

Margaret Jessie Jacobs

Easteris a reminderof renewal,a celebration.
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LOOK UP!

Helen G. Hasler

Assailed by doubt when healing did not come,I remembered at Bethesda a man who watched a pool.