Poems

PRAYER

Dear Father, let my love flow out,Impersonal, unselfed, and free:Compassionate, safe-wrapped aboutWith wisdom and integrity.

DIVINE ATTRACTION

A world startled and dazedBy ravages of man-evolved decree,Believing woes and tyrannies to beAn inescapable tribulationTo be borne,With short-time consolationIn its fleeting joys—Is this to be accepted?

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Anthology of classic articles III

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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NEEDFUL PRAYER

To God I prayFor more humility,To see Him as the sourceOf true ability.

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ONE WORLD

The world is freshand new to open eyes.

UNFOLDMENT

To thought listening in stillness,Waiting, poised in expectation,Thought maturing, larger, deeper,By God's gracious preparation,Comes a dawning, surer senseOf divine omnipotence.

TESTIMONY MEETING

So many spoke of Love's exalting power.

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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.

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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.

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 Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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TRIUMPHANT SONG

Teach me how to sing.

"SO SHALL I KEEP THY LAW"

Father , when some seeming wrongLingers long—taunting, strong—Let me recall the many waysI have knownNo human problem ever willReverse Your law, so poised, so still.

VOTE!

Vote with the knowledge of this spiritual fact:God appoints, however men elect.

GOD, MY ONLY RELATIVE

I am God's child, for His creationincludes me—whole, intact.

THE GOOD LAND

How good it is to understand!To proffer Him an outstretched hand.

"THE MEEK WILL HE GUIDE"

I know God guides;