Poems

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TODAY

Lillian M. Carter

This is my day to rejoice and be glad,To be blest;God could not give me a moment of timeTo be ill or depressed.
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LET US GO FORTH

with contributions from Madeleine E. Schobl

Let us go forth to seek divine adventure:New joys, new opportunities to bless.

Audio Collection

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 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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SPARE TEXTBOOK

Leland S. Thompson

Just now we found it, somehow hid away—"Why, here's a copy we can let them read!"How many grateful borrowers have heldThese truth-revealing pages, fragile, worn,Replaced long since, but valiant still for duty.

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EMERGENCE

Helen R. Cole

The shell of self encased me,Held me bound.
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AS I WAIT

Marion Alice Bowers

Here, where I am, is all I need of good;And as I wait on God to me unfoldsAll affluence, all beauty, and all grace.
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AWAKENING

Wilhelmina Belle Barnes

Are you dissatisfied and bowed with griefBecause you lack so very many things?

Audio Collection

A spiritual approach to mental health

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on mental health—and find hope, even healing.

Audio Collection

A spiritual approach to mental health

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on mental health—and find hope, even healing.

From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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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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OUR DAY

Mary N. Shultz

Our day is not a period of time,Measuring footsteps into age and blight,But an unfoldment of God's truth sublime,Which knows no waning sun or darkening night.
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UNFETTERED

Max Dunaway

God measures time for us as good unfolds,And He reveals and governs all our way.
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MEETING OF JACOB AND HIS BROTHER

Esther M. Moore

I could not go to meet my foe,When Love, my Father-Mother,Came to my aid; then, unafraid,I went to greet my brother.
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TRUTH'S ANSWER

Myrtle G. Egan

In loneliness and anguishMy heart cried out to Thee:"I thought Truth's way was easy,Unfettered, calm, and free.
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HIS GIFT

Ruth A. Chapin

As children will, first time to circus brought,Believe themselves in present paradise,Dazzle from splendor out of shoddy wrought,Find quintessential truth in barkers' lies,
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MY WORK

Ethel Louise Bennett

I do not work for personsIn a building of iron and stone;My service is not measuredIn the number of things I own.