Poems

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THE FATHER'S OWN

Duane Valentry

I have no need God does not knowAnd has not satisfied;Mine is the fullness of all good;Could I ask more beside?
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LOVE CANNOT FAIL

Clarissa J. Graves

Love cannot fail, nor Mind relapse,Nor can dark chaos foil God's planTo call creation out of night;For He is Light, and moves in light,Whose radiant presence shall prevailTo sweep all sorrows out of sight,All errors, never ours by right,And fill our being with delight.

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Where is God when bad things happen?

Have you ever asked yourself where God is when you’re faced with bad news? We invite you to listen to each episode and discover ideas that spark hope and inspiration.

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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LEADER BELOVED

Douglas Roberts

Alone you stoodThrough bitter wrong—The silent conflictOf a heartIn lone Gethsemane.

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"PEACE, BE STILL"

Gerald Stanwell

There came a sudden storm of mortal fearsThat beat into the consciousness of thoseDisciples who became afraid untilThey cried unto the Master, who aroseAnd calmed the troubled air with "Peace, be still.
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OH, JOY-FILLED DAY!

Louis H. Schreiber

To rise at mornEmbraced in God's dear tenderness,Cared for in richest realmOf Life, and Truth, and Love;To realize His endless blessed bountyFree to me and all—And this good news mineTo celebrate and shareThroughout each hour—Ah, this is truly heaven to contemplate,And heaven to take,And heaven to useIn service, selfless, satisfied.
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SAFE IN LOVE'S ABIDING

Louise Wheatley Cook Hovnanian

As the robin greets the spring,So does every morning bringThoughts of joy, to make me singThanks for Love's providing.

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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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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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AS THEY WAKEN

Peggy Young Clark

Father-Mother, These, Thy children,Turn to TheeAs the flowersTo the sun,Now the wall that I had buildedIs withdrawn.
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TIME TO AWAKE

Myrtle Daugherty

It is time, Paul said,To awake out of sleep.
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SONG AT MIDNIGHT

Ruby M. Drogseth

Cuts and bruises from the Roman lashWere painful, and the bands were tight,Yet Paul and Silas, in an inner cell,Sang songs that echoed through the night.
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LOVE BUILDS GOD'S HOUSE

Mildred Kendall

Love builds God's house and keeps it fair.
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NEW VIEWS

Kathryn Laney Veazey

Diviner heights of Life before me riseThan mountain grandeur's lofty solitude.
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AFFLUENCE

Marjorie D. Manley

True prayer is not a plea for just enough,Nor intimation that our needs are small,But recognition that to God's own childIs given the kingdom—not a part, but all.