Poems

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My Prayer

NANCY B. TOMLINSON

O Make my life a light that glowsMore bright from day to day;That those who toil in lonelinessMay look and find Thy way!
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"A little child shall lead"

STOKES ANTHONY BENNETT

A little child came up to me,And put his hand in mine;His heart was pure as it could be,His face with love did shine.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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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 Still

LAURA GERAHTY

God's love is everywhere; each smile and flowerIs Love's reflection on our path each day,Varying in brightness only as we pray,Differing only as we know Love's power.

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Divine Alchemy

IDA RANDALL SIMONEAU

He finds the virgin gold without alloyWho knows the heav'n-born joyOf unselfed deeds, who, having madeThe sacrifice where mortal self is laidWithin Truth's crucible and tried,Views imaged Love.
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Dawn

JANE GILBERT LACY

"Until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts.
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"Forgive ... as we forgive"

MARY I. MESECHRE

When in my prayerForgiveness I implore from God on high,Then do I dareMy own forgiving set to measure by?

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Where is God when bad things happen?

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Anthology of classic articles

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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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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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Mary Baker Eddy

FRANCES MARION RALSTON

When through the mists of time there shone on earthA beacon light from heaven's eternal day,A heart, made sensitive through suffering,Obeyed the call, and walked the narrow way.
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Our Services

ETHEL MARGARET SODEN

These royal feasts are spread by Love divine,Places prepared for each beloved child.
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Angels

JOSEPHINE ROBINSON

It may be they come in the morning,It may be they come in the night,It may be they come at the hour,Or come with the waning light;It may be they come when we 're watching,It may be they come while we sleep;But they come, oh, they come from the Father,Who ever His vigil doth keep!
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A Lively Stone

HÉLÈNE KLEIN

Canst turn thy gaze from angry looksAnd know and see man undefiledAs Love's own image, God's own child?
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Assurance

KATE L. DE WITT

Yes, weary one, Truth is for thee!And it will heal and set thee free;No shadow of a sinful pastCan blight upon true being cast.
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Working With Joy

WILLIAM P. MCKENZIE

Work in the sunny hours,Work in the day;Let night-time be for resting,Forego the anxious questingThat burns 'neath wakeful eyes;Sleep, and at morn ariseFor work in sunny hours;Work in the day.