Poems

ISRAEL THINKS OF ESAU: EVENING

After all my flight, my years away,He thinks no ill of me.

DID I PASS BY?

When he "came where he was,"Where was I?

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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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CHRISTMAS IN SUMMER

Two women were looking At Christmas cards In a summer shop.

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NOW IS THE ACCEPTED TIME

II Corinthians 6:2

ASK SOON

There's one questionyou've got to askyourself soon.

HUMILITY

Though my feet bledOn the trodden path,With bowed headI knew no foe, no wrath;Peace and joy—an aftermath.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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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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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HOMECOMING

Blazing above me,Love's banner shall beshield through the nightuntil I sightmy Father's doorwide, waiting forme, with His warm,encircling armfreeing from dreamsof terrors that seemso real to onesrunaway: sonsreturning to wakein Love's likeness, makemerry and praiseTruth, which alwayscalls home the leastlost brother to feast.

AGELESS MATURITY

In pure consciousness,where man reflectsGod's perfect creation,there's no processof material aging,no deteriorationof his native purity.

THE OPEN DOOR

O Thou redeeming presence,O holy Christ Science,I surrender to Thee.

PAUL'S WAY TO ROME

Truly he loved his fellowmenthis zealous one, this Saulbecome Paul in a moment of revelation:a moment of light that shoneon his darkened zeal,illuming his way and the paths he chose,and the roads that led to Romeand to future Romes of earth.

RANSOM

Some tricky errors fenced me in—errors of sickness, errors of sin.

A CHOSEN VESSEL

As a chosen vesselmay I do my partin bringing waterto a desert heart.