Poems

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"THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO"

Evelyn M. S. Duckett

"Father, forgive them; forThey know not what they do.
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REFLECTION

Rita Berman

Let me not say I willExcept it beIn pledge of effort madeTo act with Thee.

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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 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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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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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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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

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Shared reflections

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From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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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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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.