Poems

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MY WORK

Gladys Clarke

Wherever evil seems to be,My work is simply to unseeThe error and behold the manFashioned according to Love's plan.
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PRAYER

Elizabeth Peitzsch Diez

O Father-Mother God,Unself my thoughtThat I may see,Not poor humanity,But Thy divine reality.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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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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DESIRE IS PRAYER

Madge Elder

So, Father, would I bring my heart's desiresInto Thy sanctuary, Thy house of prayer,Nor fear again Thy temple to profane—Unholy thoughts can never enter there.

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"GIVE YE THEM TO EAT"

Marion Alice Bowers

Hungry and tired, they fainted by the road,And on the grass the little children lay.
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MORNING PRAYER

Vera M. B. Williams

Dear God, O restful, omniactive Mind,May I go forth into this busy dayReflecting Thee.
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HEALING

Adrienne Haigh

Love, did I doubt that You were here,That goodness reigned supreme?

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

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A spiritual perspective on politics

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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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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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THE RAVEN AND THE DOVE

Alexander A. Le M. Simpson

Let me not like the willful raven beWho, finding no relief,From sea to sea flutters most restlessly,And flees back to the waiting ark no more.
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THE LIGHT OF SOUL

Elizabeth Copmann

When earth obscures the sun,Throughout the long, dark night,Do you, O doubting one,Fear you have lost the light?
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THE QUICK WORD

Pearl Strachan Hurd

God's Word is quick.
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LOVE

Jennie Baird Schooley

Love springs spontaneousFrom the chastened heart;Its law is power,Its light forever glows.
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WOULD YOU CRUCIFY THE CHRIST?

Mary Pride McLaren

He said.
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CONSECRATION

Edith Coonley Howes

We have promised that each dayWe would watch, and work, and pray,That the Mind which Jesus knewBe reflected in us too.