Dear Father

Wean me from reliance on
the outward sense of things.
Teach me to want more the growth
that prayer and fasting bring.
Keep my thought uplifted to
the perfect and the real,
That I may daily be prepared
to love mankind and heal.

Mary S. Henderson

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November 2, 1987
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