Poems

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God's Little Ones

JOAN SOLOMON

THEY follow winged with joy, those little feetPlanted so early in the narrow way;With tiny hands in His they go to meetAnd face the passing shadows of each day.
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Supplication

MARY F. RICHARDSON

Dear Father, make me patient as the stars,That banish purple shadows from the sky;Teach me to uncomplainingly fulfillThy law, by loving those who pass me by.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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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"He that believeth shall not make haste"

JOY BENNETT

Let me be poised and calm and still,This is my prayer each day;Alert to hear and do Thy willIn Thy appointed way.

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God's Will Is Done

LELA E. ROGERS

God's will is done in heaven and earth!If we should learn the eternal worthOf this forever truth,How much of worldly woe and strifeWould disappear from human lifeAnd leave a living proof.
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At Last I Know

MABEL RISELING

I pondered oft in silent hoursAbout His wondrous love divine,And thought, Ah! would it meet all need When trials came to me or mine?
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"And after the wind"

KATHRINE H. WILLIAMS

I Thank Thee, Lord, in this gentler hourThat the strength of the storm is gone,That daylight waits at the windowpaneAnd the clouds are hued with dawn.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on a spiritual approach to healthcare.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on a spiritual approach to healthcare.

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 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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Praise

ETHEL CARY GILBERT

Larks winging upward,Filling the heavensWith praises of God and love to mankind,So lift our hearts, Lord,That we too may love Thee,And know Thee as Life, Truth, Love,Infinite Mind.
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Returning

MARTHA BAILEY PROCTOR

My Father's house has plenty and to spare;I hunger in a country far away.
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"Pray without ceasing"

EDMUND R. CUMMINS

Unceasing prayer! Dear God, how may one prayEach moment of the busy working day?
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At Sunrise—Easter Day

IDA M. INMAN

A first faint beam of morn,A thread of gold,And dimming shadows clear awayTo let the light unfoldA winding trail,Where countless steps still climbTo praise the risen Lord,With love and faith sublime.
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The Way to Galilee

MAUD E. FERRIS

It was the dawn, silent, and cold, and still,Its stillness broken only by the soundOf little rustling movements in the trees,Where tiny birds awakening, stirred, and calledTheir sleepy mates, with softest twitterings.
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The Victor

MARION SUSAN CAMPBELL

Who cometh down the narrow street,With such a quiet tread,And walketh as a conquerorWith thorns around his head?