Poems

FLOWERS FOR EASTER

Yellow —color of morningcolor of magical up-sunyellow for gladgladioliarranged pointing up upso simplyarranged to shout: "Life!Resurrection!"Their message their missionwe listenlike children, likebirds.

"IN QUIETNESS AND IN CONFIDENCE"

Faith grows in stillness, silencing all doubt.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on mental health—and find hope, even healing.

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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ADVENTURE

Go, traveler, go.

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THE CHRISTLY TOUCH

This was no weak-kneed faith.

TODAY

O Love divine, help me todayWith wisdom's way to guide,To silence jarring human will,Make baseless fear subside.

LOVE

The healer said, "God loves you.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

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

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

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

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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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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"PUT ON THE NEW MAN"

Seek not the cataclysmic flash,Transition absolute, today.

THE CLOSED DOORS

Closed doors! They speak to us of human fear,As when King Herod, keen to please the JewsHad Peter chained to guards and thrown in jailBehind closed doors and hoped by doing soTo silence, once for all, the truths he taught—Upsetting truths to smug complacency.

OUT OF THE ARK

The earnest of the Word requitesWith love the weary and the sad;And to the body's plaint of illAppends a period.

THE OPEN HAND

Budgeting of worldly-wiseto save oneself, not freely give;stretch a pennyworth of life,strain it through dogmatic sieve,self-protect, economize—bankrupt soul!

THE NEW NAME—PAUL

One human heartImpregnatedWith the light of Truth;A life corrected,A mission redirectedIn ways of love.

LEADERSHIP

Do we follow, with stumbling, His chosen scribe,Meeting demands with diatribe—Seeing no more than gifted penOr talent like that of other men?