Poems

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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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Get to know God: The “omnis”

Listen to gain deeper insight into the four “omnis”—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction.

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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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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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 spiritual approach to mental health

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on mental health—and find hope, even healing.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles or download the audio.

From Safety

A safe refuge

Trust in God opens the door to a safe refuge, always available and always at hand.

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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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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.
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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.
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His promise

Janet S. Beaman

Fear notWhat may lie ahead.
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Child of light

Diane Allison

Children of light, he called us! He, who moved as a moonbeam on water unweighted by heavy assumptions of the birth and death and sorrow of dust; Unillusioned by feet of clay, on feet of sight he swiftly came to comfort, teach and heal with hands whose touch outshone old shadows of shame and reached through death-dreams to wake to radiance his brother/sister-beams.