Poems

Sailing with God 

Sailing in Truth, 
   we 
         do
              not
                  drift ...
I didn’t go to the beach
   this summer,
but God gave me a
   sunny-heartedness
to warm my smiles
   to friends and foes.
Why? Because …

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on a spiritual approach to healthcare.

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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Additions 

There is love in God’s molding
   and exalting of our desires.
Our desire, as beautiful and
   impactful as it may be,
is merely a draft, a rough
   sketch, of something
   He always beheld.
Imagine …

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A flower opens 

Oh, that all the flowers could be
roses, looking just like me.
Why cannot the pansy change?
Why ever such a ...

Time for school 

What do I know? 
I’m a child of God,
   and my intelligence 
comes from my
   Father-Mother God …

Timeless days 

Eternal God, who’s always near,
­—expanding moments
and conquering years ...

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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

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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 Faculties indestructible

MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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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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Unreservedly so 

Without a qualm,
   a doubt, or fear,
we belong to
   You, Father,
   not to the world.
No matter the
   picture, the news …

Pick me up 

A little person raises 
   both arms up 
To the big person with him. 
It is a natural thing to do—
A gesture …

You are in place 

You are in place 
You are never out of place, 
never separate from Love,
   always stepping …

Collections 

Looking through
   my own
   corners of thought
   I find
one or two
   grand, solid,
   and lasting ideas …

Love’s embrace 

Whenever clouds 
    and mist appear
And tumult brings
     a saddened tear,
Resist dismay to see aright …

Must yield 

This emptiness 
whispering I’m all alone 
must yield 
to Your 
infinite presence …