Poems

ON GENTLE WORD

Oh, let it never bear a sting—the thought you think.

THE PRACTITIONER PRAYS

Make me a clear transparencyThrough which Thy light may shineSo that all those who look to meFor comfort, help, and healing seeOnly that light divine:Only Thy face, not mine!

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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 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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SPIRITUAL HARVEST

Let us sing praise this day of reapingFor garnered gain, held in safe keeping,That followed days of toil and sowing,In patient care and quiet growing.

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DAY

Day: the illumination of Life,Deathless, limitless, complete.

LOVE GOES OUT

Love is a thing that goes out,something we have to give,not something we haul infrom person or place or wrapmiserly in a clout.

THE MAN

Man of mercymet with Truth,loving children,stalwart youth;

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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 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 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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From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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NOEL

The gentle lamb—it must have heardThe angel song cascading downThrough star-illumined air.

REASON AND REVELATION

Since I'm convinced that God is All,And All is good;Because I understand that God is Life,And Life is God;I daily demonstrate that here and nowWe are in heaven,And I can let you go.

THE SINGING HEART

My heart is singing like a bird;Thou, God, art All to me.

EVERLASTING LIGHT

Let us grow lovelier as years advanceWith wisdom, tolerance, and shining graceThat manifest a radiance to enhanceThe beauty of expression in each face.

WINGS

Have you not felt it—The lilt and the lift of it?

SPIRITUAL AWAKENING

No kingdom but the kingdom of God withinCan satisfy when earthly dreams have fled.