Poems

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THY WAY

Marguerite J. Lorber

Teach me to love Thy way, O Lord,The way of Life so freeThat every habit, every urge,And every tendencyMay lead away from mortal senseTo immortality.
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WEDNESDAY EVENING MEETING

Lillian Turner Marks

"There am I in the midst of themWhere two or three are gatheredIn my name.

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

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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THANK GOD

Edgar Isaac Newgass

They will not lift, whatever you do,Those clouds that overshadow you?

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CONFIDENCE

Dorothy M. Backhouse

Learn not to smotherWith the human love,Little mother,Those you wish to help.
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"LORD, I BELIEVE"

Mary Lucretia Barker

"Lord , I believe;Help thou mine unbelief.
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AWAKENING

Grace O. Holton

I cried : "Dear God, why dost Thou pass me by?

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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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Anthology of classic articles

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

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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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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GRATITUDE

Maud Hubbard Brown

When I remember how my trust in TheeHas led me through the wilderness of years,Healing all pain and wiping dry my tears,And clearing, through the dark, a space to seeThe heavenly light of Love delivering meFrom all that flesh inherits, all arrearsOf error entertained, till there appearsGod's man in me and all men, blessedly,
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FAITHFULNESS

Alan W. Thwaites

The one who in compassion gaveThe troubled world a healing signDid not disdain the marriage feast,But changed the water into wine.
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"THOU GOD SEEST ME"

Thelma Brooks

When Hagar in the wilderness,Weeping, and blinded by her tears,Lacked water for her only son,An angel message calmed her fears:
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I SHALL SING

Annette Jean Hornstein

I shall sing psalms as David didOf God's true love and power;And then I shall, as David did,Find refuge in His tower,Where mortal woes and whims are still.
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"WHERE HAVE YE LAID HIM?"

Alexander A. Le M. Simpson

Remember the old story, the boy at workIn his father's field of corn, the fiery sun,The sudden cry, "My head," and how he was carried inAnd given into a tearful mother's armsTill, held upon her trembling knees, he died?
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"TEACH US TO PRAY"

Bessie L. Doherty

"Lord , teach us to pray"In gracious, wordless ways—Glad lives expressing every dayAll that our eager lips would sayIn gratitude and praise.