Poems

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.

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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 Conquering hate, enthroning peace

Love's triumph over hate

How can we love when others hate? Prayerful turning to God, divine Love, with the earnest desire to express His qualities under all circumstances will give us strength and ability to do right.

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TRANSIT TO HEAVEN

Love your right motive;it is the ship that bravestemptations, trials,and other troubled waves.

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VISION

"Lord,.

"HARMLESS AS DOVES"

Grieve not for eagle's flight that sweeps the wideDim vastnesses beyond the cloud-hung peaks;That spurns the gentle lands and, restless, seeksThe spume-stung headlands where the cold rains rideThe hollow winds above the churning tide.

HOSPITALITY OF THE CHRIST

Drawn to the radiance of the Christ they comeUnto the open door, so trustingly.

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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.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

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

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 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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MOTIVE

Would I have, while unwilling to earnor know, without intent to learn?

POSSIBILITY

Fear-darkened sense toldOnly of danger,Of wind and night, menace of raging sea,A frail craft's inadequacy.

CHURCH BUILDING

If our last nail were driven,Construction work all done,Our task would not be finished,Nor would our goal be won,

BEYOND THE SYMBOLS

Love etched a trillium in fragile whiteagainst the deepness of old winter's gray.

PENETRATION OF TRUTH

Truth penetrates all error;Yet not as agitated drillBoring through rock,But by its presence only.

ANSWER

You search the vague and distant hillsWith weary hope in anxious quest:"Horizons all are far away.