Poems

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Love's Daily Miracle

KATHERINE ENGLISH

SEE! Here is Life, Here is Truth, Here is Love! Bread enough, Joy enough, and to spare! Lift up thine eyes and bless And break and share!
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Love

VERA E. ADAMS

How wonderful is Love!

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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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Trust

MILDRED EDWARDS GREENMAN

When clouds of sense seem dark and drear,And error fain my sight would dim,I turn to God and know no fear,Since I have learned to trust in Him.

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God's Perfect Day

FLORENCE GERTRUDE INGWERSEN

Oh , fill our hearts with thoughts of TheeThat we may know, where'er we be,That God is Love, and come what may,Each day is God's own perfect day.
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My Prayer

CLARA F. INGALLS

To be content with God's unfolding plan; to hope, to trust, and some day understand: nor doubt, nor fear, the while it seems obscure, His willingness to guide and guard and reassure—
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Simplicity

MATTIE E. SIMPSON

How simple are the ways of love,A smile, a kindly word, a touch;Love speaks through us in simple ways;We do not need to know so much.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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These books healed me

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on how the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy heal.

From Conquering hate, enthroning peace

Love's triumph over hate

How can we love when others hate? Prayerful turning to God, divine Love, with the earnest desire to express His qualities under all circumstances will give us strength and ability to do right.

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From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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True Solitude

LAURA GERAHTY

The world outside, with flare and trumpet calling,I do not hear;The voice of garish life, on closed ears falling,No longer dear,Dies in this solitude;And deepest gratitudeFor God's infinitudeHas vanquished fear.
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Christmas

KATHRINE SCOBEY PUTNAM

Star-gleam and angel chorusAt midnight's awesome hour,Self hushed and spirit wakingTo welcome heaven's dower—So learned the humble shepherdsOf Truth's eternal power;So we may find and prove itA stronghold and a tower.
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Bethlehem

MINNA MATHISON

Through the night a star has beamed;O'er the dark a ray has gleamed.
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Mother-Love

GLENNEWEIR RINGLAND

O Love divine, that gavest me my sight,Grant me, in gratitude, from just this hourTo see aright.
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O Love Divine

MAUDE A. MAY

Teach me to know Thy way, O Love divine,That I may walk therein and never stray;That I may ever feel my hand in Thine,Leading me upward to the perfect day.
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The Way

GEORGIAN EVELYN SMITH

No matter where the way may be,My loving Father guideth me.