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CAUSATION

P. Rhodes Bowen

So often, Father, I have given thanksFor understanding better how to pray,For countless blessings: healings, lessons learned,The times of listening that revealed Your way;Oh, now my heart is singing gratitude!Today, in demonstration, I can seeThat although I, through love, have chosen You,You first, dear Father Love, had chosen me.
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TRUE PERSPECTIVE

Charlotte Bruce

The whole world is my family!No tight-knit possessive corecold-shouldering the rest:but circumference of universal thoughtincluding these—and these—and these peoplesof far-flung empires.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on a spiritual approach to healthcare.

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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ALL THINGS NEW

Vera Sohr Kelly

Now I can see that all things are new!The leaves for the healing of nationsglow in the morning dew.

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MILLSTONE OR MILESTONE

Peter J. Henniker-Heaton

A millstone or a milestone,Which shall it be?
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BARTIMAEUS

Gibbs Hofmann

Blind Bartimaeus, pitifully cryingFor mercy, did not shrink nor lose his poise,But cried the more in steadfastly defyingThe grumbling crowd's demand to make less noise.
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THE PATH OF LIGHT

Florence R. Wiggins

"Grief's pathis yours.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

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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From Faculties indestructible

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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NEVER BORN

Jeanne Guerin Bengston

Never born—what worlds of woemelt at those words! No blinding flowof desperate tears of sharp regretneed drown your hope of good.
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AN USHER'S PRAYER

Frances L. Hargreaves

Help them to leave their burdensAt the door,They who are bowed beneath a heavy loadOf care, of fear, or pain.
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SECURITY

Edith Coonley Howes

I am the image of God's pure serenityAnd in His wholeness I ever find rest.
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CHANGELESS, PROGRESSIVE, ON!

Priscilla A. Alexander

Beyond the spheric drag or clutch of timeIdeas expand—concentric, conscious, pure, sublime.
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THE REASON FOR JOY

Joyce Grenfell

The reason for joyMust always have been knownFrom the awareness of the heart,Of song, the sweet discoveryIn knowing man is not alone.
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GIFT OF CHRISTMAS

Jeanette LeMoyne

When the angels sing, my love,Sing of peace on earth:And the twinkling gleam of starsCandle-flames the birth,Jesus as the precious babeBrings the Christmas spirit—Christ, the seed within all hearts:God's love, not our merit—When the angels hover nearSongs on high are very clear.