Poems

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CLIMBING

Carolyn Holbrook Price

Dear Father, may I learnTo make each stone a stair—Each stopping place a stepping place,A place for climbing there.
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I CAN STOP BEING SWUNG

Marguerite McCulley Armstrong

Asleep,sometimes I ride the pendulum.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

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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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THAT WHICH IS

Doris Kerns Quinn

That God is Lifeseemed reasonable enough,

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DOOR IN THE MARKETPLACE

Joy Dell

A Reading Room doorstands openin the marketplace.
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LOOK, BE FREE

Holly Mensing

Tottering atop mymental fence,Indecision twists upcommon sense.
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A LAD HERE

Margaret Tsuda

This boy—child or stripling—never mentioned before or afterthis one brief verse.

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Shared reflections

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From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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"MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE?"

Margaret Singleton Decker

The voice is subtly insistentwith a suggestionsounding reasonableif not entirely validsensible if not entirely wiseor lovingor—say, who is this?
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SCOPE OF LIGHT

Frances Motley Pray

The dark has no dimensions,No caliber outlined;As absence and negationIts nature is defined.
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"IN THE BEGINNING GOD..."

Rosemary Cobham

You said: "I don't see where one can beginTo sort the muddle that I've gotten in;And how can I be sure beyond a doubtThat God is real enough to get me out?
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WHITE LIES?

Esther M. Scheck Peterson

The self-deceptivehuman mindis—to say the least—color-blind.
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TALL TREE

Stanley John York

Vivid symbolof active gratitudefor Life—
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THE MIRACLE

Kathryn Laney Veazey

We do not pray formiracles as such—only to know beloved sonis free.