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Inspirational verse submitted by readers.

With heart and mind and soul

God knows the one who trusts in Him, the one who hears, the one who sees Him. "The Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.

No serpent story

This sinuous line visible in the stony path is an illusion a deceptive form. This insidious whisper audible in Eden is a dream an elusive talk.

Unselfishness or unselfed love?

I knelt in prayer—my heart reached out to know what Love was all about. Unselfish —I once thought that's for me, this is the quality that I should be; I'll help to care for those in need and hungry souls I'll gladly feed.

The enlightened heart

" The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity.

Not a wrinkle on the image of Soul

Inspired prayer—truer thought—proves identity clear and whole, Flawless, unblemished, Godlike, pure, not a wrinkle on the image of Soul. I dwell in Love, my fear-free home, with needs already met; I walk with Truth, and freedom find from limits mortals set.

Expectancy

Millennia or the mailman— the promised or the anticipated.

Wedlock

Tenderness.

Thoughts of a Christian Science night nurse

Though people seem to sit in darkness, oft act as host to doubt and fear, Day, unfoldment of spiritual being, awaits the whole world's opened eyes— its turning to Light. Silhouettes of night dissolve in the soft, warm glow of dawning Life.

Who am I? Why am I here?

Who am I? you ponder. You are the child of God.

Lowly scribes, holy words

Our thoughts of the Bible utter our lives . Mary Baker Eddy, Message to The Mother Church for 1902, p.