Poems

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TRUSTWORTHINESS

Mildred Booth Lord

Does discouragement seem to startFrom giving God but half our heart?
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FULFILLMENT

Max Dunaway

Long years I searched, looking far offFor what I believed life's richest prize,Until a voice said: Look where you are;Take of the good that near you lies.

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Shared reflections

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

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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NO SMELL OF FIRE

Adelaide Rothenberg

Were we afraid, you ask.

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EMERGENCE

Corinne C. Jacobsen

I wandered in a night dreamdistraught—held by some vague,intangible power,when suddenly I awoke.
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"THE ARM OF THE LORD"

Mary Lucretia Barker Franklin

God's arm gives righteousness and power,And we can never lackHis might.
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BENEDICTION

Edith Coonley Howes

There is a glory in the midnight skies,A song to still all fear,A wondrous promise if we lift our eyes,A word if we will hear;For God's pure love is proving faith's increaseAnd bringing forth the Christ, the Prince of Peace.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

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

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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 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 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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MANHOOD'S FLOWER

Myrtle A. Cash

In quiet faith I pray.
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NOT AS A BEGGAR

Audrey A. Mersereau

Not as a beggar did blind Bartimaeuscome to Christ Jesus to receive his sight,but, casting on the ground his beggar's garment,he ran in joyful haste to claim his right.
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TO THE ARTIST AND WRITER

Evelyn Ring

In your hand, the brush or pen,On the page, your name,But by His power the work is done;No lesser power claim.
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HERE WHERE I STAND

Olive Scholes

Here where I stand is holy ground,No matter what the mortal seeming;In every place God's love is found.
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THE READER

Annie Lorena House

When , after judging how the Word should sound,He gave the reading in a practiced way,Profuse in praises, many hearing himSaid, "A good Reader, this, who read today.
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THE PRECIOUS OIL

Dorothy Nash Symon

Ten virgins waited eagerly the hourThe bridegroom should appear, arrayed in power.