Poems

TO A PRACTITIONER

A thousand homes rejoice todayThat once were sad and dark.

FREEDOM'S CALL

"Come unto me.

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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 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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"WHAT IS THAT TO THEE?"

If envy, curiosity,Tinge of jealousy,Should say to me,"May we come in?

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FROM SENSE TO SOUL

Not enough—flower-petaled beauty—Fragrance also there:Not enough—soft-feathered bird-throat—Music filling the air.

SPIRITUAL STILLNESS

The Psalmist sings, "Be still, and knowThat I am God"; and those who heedDiscover Love's rich overflowMakes green the wilderness of need;

PERFECTION

Perfection is no abstract stateNor wistful hovering of vague desireFor a mutation somewhat higherTo make us somehow better than we are—Perhaps to give us kinship to a star.

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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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Shared reflections

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles or download the audio.

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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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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IMMORTAL FRUIT

To taste of fruit immortalseek Truth through Spirit's portal;unlock the gatethat opens unto Soulwith love, and let the wholeof heaven hereand now appear.

COMPANIONED

I am companioned though you are gone;From selfish yearning my heart is free.

MY BRETHREN

A clear sense of omnipotence—Be this my constant prayer,That when I would my friends compareAnd judge them less than goodMy love for God and man I findWill quickly bring me back to MindAnd I shall see as Peter saw:No man as common or unclean.

TOGETHER

Out of reach?

TRUTH'S SIMPLICITY

Why do I seem to struggle so?

LIFTED UP

The light shone clearly where you stoodunshaken, seeing only good,and while you spoke the brightness grewtill what Love is winged into view.