Poems

HIS GIFT

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,

MY WORK

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

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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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AT A CHURCH MEETING

There was Diotrephes.

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THE READING ROOM

I entered , knowing that my need was met;That He who hears before we call had heard.

RESURRECTION

The day was gray, my heart was sad.

QUIET DEPARTURE

Let me depart in quiet thought.

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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.

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Shared reflections

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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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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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ANNUAL MEETING

A holy hush fell on this holy ground.

REFLECTION

The storm was over and the rains had ceased;Dark, lowering clouds had risen to disperse,And I walked out into the sweet, cool airLost in deep thought, and unawareOf nature's beauty round the countryside.

GOD KNOWS

God knows, and man reflects God's knowing;Then need I plan or fear?

SIMEON

The Holy Spirit told me I would seeThe dear Messiah ere I go away.

SUPERNAL LIGHT

The light of Truth has never failed,Through sometimes in us dormant liesUntil, by drastic need assailed,We see through more enlightened eyes.

BEFORE THE LECTURE

This is a sacred time, this quiet hourBefore the feast so lovingly preparedIs set before us.