Poems

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Do You Ever Count Your Blessings?

Michael Todd Hanson (Age 8)

Do you Know what blessings are?
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TO YIELD

E. Stuart Wells

The way is rough without a guide,but God is always here.

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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 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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THE RIGHT TO CLARITY

Doris Kerns Quinn

Refuse to be confused; declare your rightTo clarity, to steadfast, calm control.

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When something's lost...

Gregory Roland

When something's lostwhich I can't find,I know it's never farfrom Mind.
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"AS THE TREE FALLS..."

E. Stuart Wells

The tree will lie right where it falls,and I will fell it there.
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MENTAL-PICTURE PRISON

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

I knew her as a shrew and held myself above heruntil she came one day and bade me pray for herand I saw her kneeling, asking God for healingof sin and pain.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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From Safety

A safe refuge

Trust in God opens the door to a safe refuge, always available and always at hand.

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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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SWEET ARE THE USES ...

Carol Earle Chapin

If I am glad in spite of many tears,In spite of disappointment, loss, or pain,Then I am glad indeed, because this meansI'm feeling joyful for the deepest reasons,Not ease or human happiness or favor.
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DEALS

Richard Henry Lee

A me-deal is never I-deal.
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I HAVE A FATHER I HAVE A MOTHER

Dorothea T. Leamy

Jimmy thinks we're not a whole familybecause at home there is just me and Mommy.
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COMFORTED

Margery Todahl Blokhine

There was no way, it seemed, to lift the stoneThat was my heart; no way, it seemed, to writeThe beauty I so loved.
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What Can I Do?

SYLVIA N. POLING

What do I see?
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A DANCER'S BLISS

Sharon Lloyd Spence

Presently forgottenhours of disciplined practicenow culminate on stagein effortless extension of leg,dazzling dimension of movement,exquisite expression of Soul.