I will this day try to live a simple, sincere, and serene life; repelling promptly every thought of discontent, anxiety, discouragement, impurity, and self-seeking; cultivating cheerfulness, magnanimity, charity, and the habit of holy silence; exercising economy in expenditure, carefulness in conversation, diligence in appointed service, fidelity to every trust, and a childlike trust in God. And as I cannot in my own strength attain this measure of wisdom and power, I make humble and firm resolve to seek all these things from my heavenly Father.—
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I will this day try to live a simple, sincere, and serene...
From the February 1906 issue of The Christian Science Journal