JANUARY THIRTY-FIRST

Nature demands that man be ever at the top of his condition. He who violates her laws must pay the penalty, though he sit on a throne.
—James G. Elaine.

Dig channels for the streams of love,
Where they may broadly run;
And love has overflowing streams
To fill them every one.
For we must share if we must keep
The good things from above;
Ceasing to give, we cease to have—
Such is the law of love.
—R. C. Trench.

And thy life shall be clearer than the noonday;
Though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning.
—Job 11. 17.

My Father, I would remember that it is mostly from my inspirations that I conceive life. Take away hatred and vanity that keep me in faults, and awake in me the thoughts that are responsible for visions that lead to high ideals. Amen.