Poems

LOVE OWNS ALL

If Love owns all the hours that wait,Standing outside tomorrow's gate,Then need I ask the morrow's task,Or need I fear a prospect drearIf Love owns all the now and here?

EMPLOYMENT

Today I shall approach my workWith ceaseless trust and confidenceThat Mind alone directs and guides,And I reflect intelligence.

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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 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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TRUE MEANING

As flowers unfold,So come the sacred meaningAnd substance of a truth, each morning mealBringing to lightWith every prayerful gleaningThe messages of God that help and heal.

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WHEN?

When shall we rendThe veil,That frailPhantom of mortality?

SANCTUARY

Upon the world's horizon broodsThe challenge of an unspent storm,And over troubled nations spreadsThe shadow of the old alarm.

HOW GOOD TO KNOW

How good to know,Wherever we go,Love has prepared our place;No circumstance,No idle chance,Can govern any case.

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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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Changing your world

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

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 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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IN THE BEGINNING

In the beginning God beheldCreation and pronounced it good.

SECURITY

On land, on sea,Or borne by air,I know I haveLove's constant care;And thus I findSecurityThrough childlike trust,Dear God, in Thee.
In full accordance with God's lawthe miracle fulfills His plan.

THE ROAD TO EMMAUS

He walked with us as close and dearAs friend would walk with friend;The burning, glowing words he spokeWe still could comprehend.

I AM HE

"Art thou he that should come?

MAINTENANCE

Five loaves and two small fishes—what were theyTo satisfy the thousands who had comeSeeking the Master in this desert placeAnd now at eventide were far from home!