Poems

FEAR NOT, CHILD

Be still, dear child, and hear His voiceBidding you be glad, rejoice.

WITHIN MY HEART

Where a lone bright flower blowsBeside the white Sierra snows,Here I have knelt to pray.

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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 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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GOD GIVES US STRENGTH

God gives us strengthTo start each day anew,To gain a higher view,With hearts that long to blessIn acts of tenderness.

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OUR FIRST AID

God is our first and surest aid.

PRAYER FOR GUIDANCE

Dear God, I pray,Show me the way.

LAW OF LOVE

So much to meet, I used to say,As error sentenced me each day.

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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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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.

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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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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LOVE IS IMPARTIAL

We cannot wish withheld from our worst foeA single blessing we ourselves would know,If we would pray aright.

MORNING PRAYER

I greet the day, knowing that all of goodIs mine to know and to be understood.

ILLIMITABLE LIFE

She said, "I have been studying eternal Life,And it is wonderful!"And how we all rejoiced to see her smile againWith new assurance.

DREAM SHADOWS

I dreamed my purse was empty—nothing knowingSave insecurity and lack and strain.
When the lying tongues are strivingOn the battlefield of fear,When the thunderous charge of errorTramples all I hold most dear,

AT THE ALTAR

Oh , cast on the steps of the altarThe dream of creating anew.