Poems

Noticing miracles

Not just in healings of the sick,and raising of the living dead.

Listening for God

My tongue says, "I can't!"I just sit there and cry.

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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 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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If I had been Abraham

that fearful day,what would I have thought,what prayed,loading firewood upon the lad—upon my only son?

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Expanded view

Once I conceived of here as there,As when instead of now.

A calm so deep

When seas of mortal thought are churned,I often see, floating above tempestuous wave-lashan idea—the possibility conceived of calm—a calm so deep the seas are only whispers now.

O sons! O daughters!

"O Timothy,".

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Where is God when bad things happen?

Have you ever asked yourself where God is when you’re faced with bad news? We invite you to listen to each episode and discover ideas that spark hope and inspiration.

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Where is God when bad things happen?

Have you ever asked yourself where God is when you’re faced with bad news? We invite you to listen to each episode and discover ideas that spark hope and inspiration.

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 Safety

A safe refuge

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

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Your place*

As a snake fits its hole,Or a turtle its shell,So there is a placeJust for you as well.

Today and today

I am hathMadeMeOr else myReality were but myth.
Wakeful at a small inconvenient hourI thought of the sleepless Ahasueruscommanding his book of recordsbe read to him.

What hast thou?

What hast thou in the house?

Insight

Insight comesin that infinite instantwhen time and spacedissolve intojust knowingthatGod is.

Joy

Happiness can be made into a list.