Poems

LET US NOT FEAR

Let us not fear life's starless nightNor hear the tale it tells—The earthborn chronicle of manAnd sorrow it impels.

LOVE, THE COMFORTER

As leaven lightens heavy bread,As dawn makes darkness bright,So love erases grief and dreadAnd makes all burdens light.

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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 Place

"The secret place of the most High"

We learn in Christian Science that God is infinite Truth, Life, and Love and that He imparts to His creation only that which is completely beneficial.

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THE PRODIGAL'S BROTHER

"Son , thou art ever with me,and all that I have is thine.

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"THE DESERT SHALL REJOICE"

Tears of grief that seek so unavailinglyTo salve the wounded heart,They leave us wandering alone and aimlesslyIn desert lands, apart.

THE LIGHT OF TRUTH

I Stand on higher ground today in praiseOf Thee: all beauty, goodness, truth, and love.

THE LITTLE MAID

By companies they came and took me captiveand brought me to the house of him whose wifeI now must serve—a Syrian!And I?

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Anthology of classic articles II

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

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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 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 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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THE ELECT

We are too richTo be poorWho have the pearlBeyond all price.

THE VALLEY OF DECISION

Think not of small import today's decision.

UNITY

The world is not in night;Clearly the growing lightReveals the pattern of the Father's plan.

YOUR PART

Perchance your longing eyes perceiveWhat other workers in the Field achieve;You seek a part in honor and in fameTo bless the world, enrich it in Christ's name.

RESURRECTION

I stood and weptAnd sorrowing viewed the scene:Man fallen,Caught in the maelstrom of earth's woe,Sick, sinful, tired.

CERTITUDE OF VISION

Who finds the inner brightness of the SoulPuts off the hindering whither and the why,Puts on the ancient yea—the certain, whole,Unalterable, and eternal aye, and aye.