Poems

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TODAY

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

Today belongs to God.
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ILLUMINATION

Marjorie A. Schwiesow

I lift my eyes to GodWho gives me perfect sight,And through the lens of LoveI findHe gives me added light.

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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 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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LISTENING

Janeve Warren Whalley

Again a passage, oft repeated,Recognized as books are marked.

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ONE CONSTANT RIGHT

Ellen Shank Collins

Love, unchanged by circumstance.
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"MARVEL NOT"

Jayne Holmes Warren

Could any man be born again?
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WAIT WITH PATIENCE

Sue Ann McDowell Brannan

The great I AM,All true, all wise,Unfolds with loveTo patient eyesA sense of joy,Of freedom won,Dispels the cloudsThat hide the sun.

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These books healed me

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on how the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy heal.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

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

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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From Place

"The secret place of the most High"

We learn in Christian Science that God is infinite Truth, Life, and Love and that He imparts to His creation only that which is completely beneficial.

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THE GARDEN

Donalda von Poellnitz

Where Jesus met the zenith-tideOf hate ere he was crucified,There was a garden.
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KINDNESS AT THE CROSS

Myrtle Daugherty

Who was he—this eager onerunning to hold the saturated spongeto Jesus' thirsting lips?
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THE WORLD

Martha H. Scherf

"Love not the world.
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ALREADY THERE

Pearl Strachan Hurd

When we look from a starat where we now are,and accept the factthat nothing can actunsparked by Mind;when we leave behindlimiting elevation,of dense plantation,of wall and spire;when we let the fireor Truth consumeour night, and illumenew day, out log will showthere was nowhere to go,for we, undeceived,shall have perceivedno need to roamto or from home.
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THE SUPREME GOAL

Gibbs Hofmann

They who have learned that God is All,And in that light with joy let fallTheir doubts and fears, and kindred chains,Till only purity remains,Will rise to heights where each can say:All earthly things have passed away.
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PURE MIND

Peter J. Henniker-Heaton

God is pure Mind; He does not work through matter.