Poems

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THE FIRST COMMANDMENT

Gloria Clements

Dear Father-Mother God!So longI longed to help in human ways, andkind deeds often filled my days,but weariness seemed to stifle meuntil I learned to love God more.
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THE VOCABULARY OF SPIRIT

Marlyeen Stettner

On all sides we hear hearts crying outin anguish.

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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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AGREEMENT

Ruth Doerr Brierley

No compromisehammered out on the anvil of mortal mind,No uneasy truceor apathetic surrender to another's way,

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Loving Your Neighbor

Beverly Bond Frost

Ican seewhatspiritual sensesees;
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ANANIAS

Rushworth M. Kidder

"I heard you, Lord: 'Heal him.
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"LEAPING, AND PRAISING GOD"

Anthony John Cobham

Peter took the lame man by the hand and lifted him.

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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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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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HOLD FAST

Gerald Stanwell

Paul, who had rashly floundered, and mistook his way,blinded by the light of innocence, found his own,and there, in the humbled waiting thought, were sownseedlings of faith that, over the years, were growninto mountain strength.
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FINDING

Marjorie E. Lilly

Watch the truth emerge—swim to the surface—
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Sunburst of Understanding

Lee Ann Morgan

Soon I can see the first glimpse of understanding lightas one catches the glintof the first light of dawn.
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NO MORE IRRITATION

Louise S. Darcy

Irritationis the sandthat clogs the engineof livingand makes it sputter.
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Why Is Christmas?

Sylvia N. Poling

God's love shonelike a bright starone nightin Bethlehemmany years ago.
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LIGHT OF CHRISTMAS

Barbara L. Kelly

Bedded on barren hillsides of materialism,cloaked in stupefying dreams,through twenty centuriesshepherds have slept unseeing,while above themthe Bethlehem star yet shines.