Poems

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"Charity suffereth long, and is kind"

EUNICE M. BRONSON

I would be kindTo all who cross my path;To all who cross my thought,I would be kind.
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"I love your promise"*

FLORENCE ELIZABETH BUCK

What is your promise, as you clap your hands,O graceful treesThat in the forest and the meadow landsRustle your tender song to every breeze;What do you sing?

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

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

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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"Peace, be still"

WARREN CHARLES KLEIN

There comes a stillness in the heart,Like twilight after rain,When gloom is gone, and mists depart,And new hope smiles again.

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My Prayer

SOURIE GLOVER CHARLES

Teach me to give, O Love divine,What Thou hast given to me;Let me reflect to all mankindThy gift of liberty.
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Desire

MARIE A. HEIDBRINK

Dear Father, help me to expressThy loving care and kindliness.
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Love Will Take Care of You

CAROLINE L. DIER

His anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

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Shared reflections

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

From Place

"The secret place of the most High"

We learn in Christian Science that God is infinite Truth, Life, and Love and that He imparts to His creation only that which is completely beneficial.

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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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Heaven

CHARLES C. SANDELIN

Lo , heaven is here! Be not amazed,Nor scorn the gladsome news: behold,The sick are healed, the dead are raised,The meek the wondrous truth are told!
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My Prayer

CLARA H. HEARN

Dear Father-Mother God, I plead,As did the king so long ago,For wisdom, richest gift of Love,That I the right may always know.
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The Star

GRACE NIXON STECHER

Since ever time began, the sons of JacobHad journeyed through the wastes of wrong desires,Had struggled with the mental beasts of Baal,Had languished through the poppied paths of pleasure,Had fainted in the marshes of misgivings,Their eyes so blinded by a veil of dream-mistThey could not see the star that moved above them,
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The True Church

EMMA L. TRAXLER

This church not built on shifting sands,Nor reared by touch of human hands,All else excels in deeds of love,Reflected from the Mind above.
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Footsteps

WALTER CLIFFORD HARVEY

If I each day am turning more and moreTo Thee, and counting less the steps which come beforeWhere all is Thine;If I am holding fast the goal ahead,If I with trust in Thy safe guidance onward tread,Then joy is mine.
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Consecration

GERTRUDE DEANE HOUK

Grant us, O Love divine, the listening ear,That we Thy harmony sublime may hear;The seeing eye, that we may recognizeThy universe, not seen by finite eyes;An understanding heart, that we may knowThe human need—that Love heals all its woe.