Poems

The Awakening

WHAT matters where my body dwellsIf but my thoughts are high?

Cheer Up

Cheer up! The sky is bluerThan it was a year ago;The very smiles are gladderAnd have a richer glow;The raining and the sunshineAre helping you and me—The world is growing betterThan it ever used to be.

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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.

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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A Song of Thanksgiving

New-winged with truth, as never winged before—The Master's truth, reborn these latter days—Thanksgiving anthems ring from shore to shoreAround the pendant world, with joy and praise.

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"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto me"

O God , behold my open hands:Place Thou my work within;They emptied are of earthly gainAnd pleasurings of sin.

Little Words

"Yes, you did, too!""I did not!"Thus the little quarrel started,Thus, by unkind little words,Two fond friends were parted.

Life Quatrains

Seeing.

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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.

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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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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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Windows

Windows each, if our hearts be true,Are we to the hearts about us;Lighting the shades of their cold, gray worldWhich were dreary and dark without us.

The Dewdrop

What is that chaste, that sparkling thing,Which to the rose at dawn doth cling,And nestled near its throbbing breastPlays ardent lover while a guest?

To a Waterfowl

Whither, midst falling dew,While glow the heavens with the last steps of day,Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursueThy solitary way?

The Standard of Love

Let us lift up our hearts with a joy untoldFor this truth that has come to the lives of men,A standard that Love has for us unrolledAnd raised at the break of the day, again.
What makes little children quite happy and good,And banishes tempers both naughty and rude?

The Mother-Love

As to the downy nest the spent bird fliesAt sunset time; as to the waters grayMoves glad the trusting ship whose purpose diesWithout its strong upholding; as the dayGoes joyfully to night's embrace at last,And as the star, aweary far aboveWith its night-watching, hails the dawning vast—So rests, so hides the world in mother-love!