Poems

Beautiful 

Enjoy this week’s poetic offering.

A music lesson 

Bartok is hard. 
So many notes! 
Symbols of sound 
   o’erwhelm the page ...

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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

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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In times of doubt, when
   shadows cloud the mind, 
We seek divine Love,
   our guiding Light. 
A beacon in the storm,
   it shines …

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Just love 

How can I help?
Love.
How can I grow? ...

What God does 

God doesn’t answer prayers of one
   and then not of another.
For everyone’s a child of God,
   who is our Father-Mother.
This Father won’t send evil so that good
   may someday come,
For God is …

Not beleaguered but blessed 

We get a full dose every day 
of political enragements 
of a constant barrage of …

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

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Anthology of classic articles III

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

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 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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I can never be apart
from You 
   or from 
   the love of Christ ...

An acrostic treatment 

Spirit 
Undoes 
Godless 
Generalizations …

Prayer that moves 

Elijah sat still
   under a tree 
and prayed for the end. 
I’ve been under that
   tree of despair 
when all my …

In all simplicity 

At first,
I prayed to know
That God is greater ...

My prayer for the sick 

I can only 
see 
what I’m …

God’s message at eventide 

Sun sinks west 
       at God’s behest, 
while I look east 
       my glorious feast 
              is pink—
like lemonade ...