Poems

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Reunion

Bettie Gray

This time the road home to Texasthunders through clouds, and ends as a runway borderedby fields of wild Mexican primroses and Indian paintbrushThe sky has the starring role in every Texas tale.
Kids

Secret of the fiddlehead fern

Lyn Littlefield Hoopes

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Changing your world

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From Faculties indestructible

MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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Kids

For a kid who loves bugs

By Caryl Krueger

The hour has come to go to bed.

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Kids

Celebrating love and family with snapshots and poems from you

Nathaniel Becker, Sara Dickson

Spoons on noses,hear them calling:"Help us! Help us!We are falling!"
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Brinkmanship

Kim Shippey

Stand proud, my son,in the morning lightof your teens,fearless as the sun,yet unashamed ofsmall clouds of reticencethat say "think"before you blast your waythrough life's adventure.
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City street crossing

Suzanne Liebenrood

I live in a large city that is noisy and packed with concrete, steel, glass, cars, and trucks.

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Get to know God: The “omnis”

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

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Changing your world

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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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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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Poem

In Pristina, a green vase sings from a table left standing

By Warren Bolon

A white chaliced tulip, orange-crowned daffodils butter and honeycupped, the perfume of narcissuspetal fanned, these are vowels in God's own language.
Poem

Torchbearer

by Nancy Ferguson

Are you a torchbearerbringing the lightto human consciousness?
Poem

Tolerance

By Sean Farrell

There they stood,Two flaming towers in the bright morning sun.
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To the big children

Mary Baker Eddy

Father-Mother good, lovinglyThee I seek, —Patient, meek,In the way Thou hast,—Be it slow or fast,Up to Thee.
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A psalm for you

By Toni Albert,

A psalm for you (song edition)
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The Mother's Evening Prayer

Mary Baker Eddy

O gentle presence, peace and joy and power;O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,Thou Love that guards the nestling's faltering flight!Keep Thou my child on upward wing to-night.