Poems

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SACRIFICE

Ruth Burrows

Harsh concept of a just but jealous GodDrove Abraham to climb the lonely mount.
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THE SAMARITAN

C. Elizabeth Hunsworth

My neighbor fell among thievesWho robbed him of his good name,Stripped him and left him helplessAnd stricken with shame.

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Anthology of classic articles II

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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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TRUE SATISFACTION

Helen E. Wells

Be satisfied!The words came suddenly—As if in answer to my fervent prayerThat I might wake to seeMore clearly Love's reality.

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PROGRESSION

P. Rhodes Bowen

Dear Father-Mother Love,How wonderful to knowThat I don't need to waitTill I have overcomeAll false, suggested fearsOf mortal mind's contention,Before I feed Your sheepWith Your sustaining truth,And pour the healing oilOf prayer on friend or foe—Increasing inspiration!
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OMNIPRESENCE

Vera Sohr Kelly

God , I thank Thee for this living spring.
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ALL THINGS NEW

Fanny de Groot Hastings

There are no duplicates in Mind,Which promised to make all things new—No seconds found of any kind—But one of me and one of you.

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Shared reflections

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Where is God when bad things happen?

Have you ever asked yourself where God is when you’re faced with bad news? We invite you to listen to each episode and discover ideas that spark hope and inspiration.

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 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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THE DEARLY SOUGHT

Godfrey John

You are the dearly soughtOf God.
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TURN HOMEWARD, PILGRIM!

Elizabeth Rogers

Have you sought passage through some weary, landof human hopes, entanglements and dreams,and found, for fast, no crumb of bread at hand,
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THAT NIGHT ON GALILEE

Gibbs Hofmann

See how the fantasy of frightEngulfed the doubting twelve that nightAs wind and waves the vessel swept,And peacefully the Master slept,He, waked when they in fear were tense,Rose in divine magnificence,Whom nothing mortal ever moved.
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THE STILL SMALL VOICE

Edna B. Brown

Not long ago a tempest raged.
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THE GATE OF HEAVEN

Donalda von Poellnitz

The time of reckoning was close at handAs Jacob came to answer Love's demandFor equity.
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RESURRECTION

Margaret Hovenden Ogden

The field I reap,The harvest of attainment,The ripened yield that bends with the wind and reaches to the light,Is not the fruitage of a single season.