Poems

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Purpose

John Pendleton

Kings and queens may ponder,Agnostics shake their heads in doubt.
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Tsunami survivor–child of our prayers

Pam Chance

Some folk said you mightnever laugh again.

Audio Collection

Shared reflections

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From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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Post-tsunami prayers

Pam Chance

We fly overempty landscapesof destructionand sail closeto catastrophicscars of change.

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NIGHT FLIGHT

Melissa Baker

The sky was ablaze with beauty,The cities were dripping with gold,But my heart was almost on empty.
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TO BE AND NOT TO BE

Gwenn Gurnack

To be a good Samaritan and a humble publicanHas set my heart afire.
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Steps

Elizabeth Mata

Drained and in want,I lie here with no strengthto get up on my feet.

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Shared reflections

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Anthology of classic articles III

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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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From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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The joy of blessing

Margaret MacIsaac

May the sun shine in your heart,The rain nurture and refresh,And may you feel God's presenceEach step of the way.
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Friendship

Bruno Pinaquy

Like giving your warmCoat to the strangerWhen both of youAre cold
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A musical reckoning

Patricia Johnston

The music was the thing tonight that brought a reckoning.
Kids

Like a pearl

with contributions from Erin Plum, Ben McArthur

Some of you wrote to tell us you enjoyed the article in the March 29, 2004, kids' Sentinel by poet Lyn Hoopes.
Kids

Attitude

Claude de Jocas

It's my twelfth double twist,and I've yet to stick one.
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A CHILD CALLS FROM DARFUR

Karim Ajania

Lord, how I long to be carried upon Your wingUnder the radiance of Your Love.