Poems

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LAW OF LOVE

Alice B. Steiner

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

Wilhelmina Belle Barnes

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

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Shared reflections

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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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MORNING PRAYER

Elizabeth B. Vaill

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

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ILLIMITABLE LIFE

Mary Lucretia Barker Franklin

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

Alice E. Tonking

I dreamed my purse was empty—nothing knowingSave insecurity and lack and strain.
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WITHIN HIS BRIGHT PAVILIONS

Ruth King

When the lying tongues are strivingOn the battlefield of fear,When the thunderous charge of errorTramples all I hold most dear,

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

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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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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AT THE ALTAR

Marion Alice Bowers

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

Thelma Hill Ward

How wonderful it is to knowThe constant, sweeping, inner glowOf ever-present Love divine!
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SAFETY

Estelle Dale

My Father knows my need;No hint of want, no fear,Shall cloud my hope or quench my joy.
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THE LOST LAMB

Kathryn Paulson

Dark seemed the night while the little lamb strayed,Hungry and weary and cold;Steep seemed the hillside and lonely the pathFar from the warmth of the fold.
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THE MAN OF GOD

Luther Phillips Cudworth

Principle points the pattern,Mind perfects the plan;Ideas unfold in unity,God's voice announces, "Man.
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CLIMB!

William Aubert Luce

With morning's radiance Moses roseWhile Israel slept in dull repose;He climbed the pathway up to GodWhile Israel clung to earthly sod.