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Prayer for harmony in the 'hood
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
I love flowers, birds and quiet times with God, so I often go out on the back deck to read. And while I live in a very active neighborhood, with traffic noise and children playing, I can still hear the birds singing.
I love each of those sounds. To me, the traffic going by represents activity and progress. The children laughing and playing remind me of God-given happiness and boundless energy. And speaking of birds, I love what Mary Baker Eddy wrote about them in an article called “The Way.” She referred to birds as “the uplifted desires of the human heart” (Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 356).
Recently, I was trying to “uplift my desires” in praying about an unhappy situation with my neighbors. I was planning a family reunion, and to accommodate the many people who were coming, I had done some landscaping in the back yard. This included installing a deck with a raised arbor for hanging plants.
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