Poems

Oh, Where Is Understanding?

Where shall wisdom be found,and what is the place thereof?

Life Eternal

Life that shall never fail nor fadeIs promised every child of God.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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

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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Expectancy

Does fear disturb, or apprehension cloudThe days that are ahead?

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Leave All for Christ

Leave all for Christ, all bitterness and pain,And petty envy of thy brother's gain;     Leave these for Christ.

Peace and Permanence of Mind

To know one God, one perfect Mind,Brings peace and progress to mankind,

The Prism of Humility

Humility's keen prism glassAccepts Mind's light and lets it pass,Like sunlight's vivid rainbow stream,Unspent in source-dependent beam.

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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.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

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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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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Practitioners

They break the Christ-blessed bread of Life todayAs did those others long ago on Galilean shore,And feed the hungry multitudes who follow—stumbling—in the wayAnd seek a light to guide them evermore.

"Whatsoever a man soweth"

Watch the sowing.

Rejoice

They said, "Rejoice,"although my heart was sad,weary with care, bowed down with pain;they said, "Be glad.

Benefactors

Truth supplies the completeVision that is to be sought;Life, with its vigor, will meetThe duties that are to be wrought;While Love gives speed to the feet.

The Power of Gratitude

Like Jacob, I too was aloneAnd wrestling with the lieThat claims man lives in matter,And out of it can die.

Communion

Many who on loaves and fishesCame to dine,Remained to feast upon immortalBread and wine.