Poems

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The Good Shepherd

GERTRUDE GOODING MC CLOUD

How can I want more than I have of good,Since Love my Shepherd is, and I the sheepThat, though it wanders, seeketh still the roadWhere all the flock of His their feet should keep?
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Remembrance

ALICE TROXELL MC COUN

Would you remember one alway, alway,Then call to mind the times his thought was kind,Forgetting self that love might be enshrined.

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Anthology of classic articles II

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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Testimony

IDA MARIA HANSON

You who have touched his garment's hem,   Why falter you, why wait?

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Urim and Thummim

MILES BUCKSTON WATTS

For Aaron holy garments did they make,For glory and for beauty, long agoThat, thus enrobed, in deep humilityHe might approach the inmost sanctuary,The secret place beyond the wreathed veil,Within the temple's close-encircling courts—High priest before the altar of the Lord.
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At-one-ment

MARGARET OSBORN

O God, Thou perfect Life!Because I dwell in TheeMy life is ever sureThroughout eternity.
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Supplication

CHRISTIANA WILLINK

Speak, Father-Mother, God; send forthThy message to my ear;Make me receptive to the call,Conscious that Thou art All-in-all,In deep humility.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

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

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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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From Safety

A safe refuge

Trust in God opens the door to a safe refuge, always available and always at hand.

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They Have Been with Jesus

CAROLINE L. DIER

Yes, they are changed—How kindly do they speak;The crippled beggar stands erectSince they have passed,And surely, yonder blind manIs gazing toward the mountain—seeing!
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Omnipresence

ELSIE A. KOEFOED

Lo! I am here and nigh,Saith the Lord God!Not seen with human eye,But in the daily, hourly roundOf common tasks is My way found.
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Humility

BUENA V. FREEMANN

Dear Father-Mother God,I come to Thee;I lay my all upon the altar.
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Behold, I Stand at the Door

ALMA G. V. HARRISON

Dear Christ, I heard thee knocking,As with sorrow and pain I strove;I knew that thou wert waiting,With outstretched hand of love.
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Turn Thou to God

F. INA BURGESS

Does grief surround,And press its aching weight upon thy breast?
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Let Me Awake

ROBIN A. WALKER

When night has spent its seeming spellAnd songbirds rise their joy to tell,When crimson dawn the chill mist breaks;My thought awakes!