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TO A CAPTIVE WHO FREED HERSELF

Gerald Stanwell

We do not know for sureyour young heart's wrestlings in a distant age,nor possibly the pangs of injured pride,the throes of fear, you had to overcome,with loved ones lost, nor the hard rideinto captivity, wrenched from native landto wait as servant, do what came to hand.
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going to the city

Stephen Thomas Gray

Little feet, big feetall walking different.

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

From Conquering hate, enthroning peace

Love's triumph over hate

How can we love when others hate? Prayerful turning to God, divine Love, with the earnest desire to express His qualities under all circumstances will give us strength and ability to do right.

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FRIENDLY UNIVERSE

Rosemary Cobham

Since the one MindCreated the universe,None can ever findAny part hostile or perverse.

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RATIONALE

Darren Stone Nelson

("Even ifI knowwho I am
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Where is God?

SYLVIA N. POLING

Here is God, where I am.
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THE TENTH LEPER

Ella Mae King

He alone turned back;He alone was grateful:He did not lackThe thankful heart.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

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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 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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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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What is Perfect?

SYLVIA N. POLING

Jesus said our Father is perfect, sowe should be perfect, too.
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FROM A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT:

KATHY ELIZABETH GYGAX

Open your door to God,And you open your thought to Love;Be generous with your love for all,And the freedom of Life will be yours;Take heed of the truth in Spirit,And Truth will answer your needs;Be as a tree—
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GOD'S ALLNESS

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

Sometimes, when it seems mocking tears,frightening dreams, and false fearswould accent my smallness,I think of God's allness,and it melts them away—I soar in the wideness of mercy, the tallnessof justice, in boundless purity.
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TAKEOFF

Robert Howard Zeller

O perfect One to whom our prayers ascend,We ask Thee not for any earthly thing.
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SOUND SHELTER

Neil Millar

Typewriters fling noise-pellets at the air;Telephones spurt their little jets of belling;Throughout the city, rumbling, roaring, yelling,Din burns and beats at every thoroughfare.
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SMALL RAIN AND TENDER HERB

Margery Macdonald Cantlon

Now upon the tender herbemerged from dark terraininto a sunlit world superb,fall gently, soft small rain!