Poems

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Christmas Poem

VERE BAILLIEU

"Because there was no room for them.
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Benediction

ROSE T. KELSALL

Be comforted, ye weary ones,Hear Spirit's gentle voice:Oh, lift your heads, the message runs,Imbibe Life's fount, rejoice.

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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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Sign of Immanuel

LUELLA KNAPP BRISTOL

How often, through the mists of mortal sense,Men yearn to see some sign or evidenceThat God is near!

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Love's Omnipresence

BLESSING AINSWORTH BROWN

No less is God upon the fieldOf battle far awayThan in this quiet, hallowed room,Where He seems near today.
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God's Perfect Protection

FLORENCE E. GLASS

In olden time the prophet Abrahamwas called upon to sacrifice his son,or so he thought, but truly God's commandmeant not what he interpreted, but ratherthat he must give up his false sense of son.
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The Fourth Beatitude

JAMES MONTEITH ERSKINE

Whoever hungers for the bread of TruthOr longs for water Love alone supplies,Sinner or saint, aged or but a youth,He shall receive the food that satisfies.

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Shared reflections

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Where is God when bad things happen?

Have you ever asked yourself where God is when you’re faced with bad news? We invite you to listen to each episode and discover ideas that spark hope and inspiration.

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 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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Be of Good Cheer

JAMES TOWNSEND MAC VICAR

Be of good cheer! The Master calleth you!And Bartimaeus cast his robe away.
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Petition

CHRISTIANA WILLINK

Teach me how to yield, dear Father,To Thy great and holy power;Humbly do I ask it of TheeAs I listen hour by hourFor the holy inspirationWhich to man Thou dost impart,That which purifies and cleansesThe repentant human heart.
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"While it is called To day"

LAURA LEE RANDALL

Lord, Thou hast given us this dayIn whose clear light,Showing Thy might,We can most gratefully believeThat all the good for which we prayWe shall receive.
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"Glory to God in the highest"

EDITH COONLEY HOWES

Except my lips first learn to sing,"To God the highest glory be,"I cannot hear the "Peace on earth"His messengers would bring to me.
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Sufficient Grace

MYRTLE DAUGHERTY

Three times in prayer Paul sought releaseFrom the harsh thorn of painPricking the ease of the flesh.
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Prayer

ANNE BONNER MARLEY

O guide my footsteps in the path that leadsTo peace, and may I chart the way with deedsOf simple kindness wrought with selfless love.