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  • #17002
    Vern
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    Vern wrote:  Today, 1 September is Unselfishness is the badge of human greatness a suggested match would be:

    The happy and effective person

    is motivated, not by fear of wrongdoing,

    but by love of right doing

     

    [Paper 140:4.6, page 1572:6]

    #17013
    Vern
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    Vern wrote:  Today, 2 September is “The adult is willing to sow seeds of self-denial in order to reap subsequent harvests ofaugmented happiness” a suggested match would be:

    The poor in spirit

    seek for

    goals of spiritual wealth — for God

     

    [Paper 140:5.7, page 1573:9]

    #17018
    Vern
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    Vern wrote:  Today, 3 September is “You do not have to see alike or feel alike or even think alike in order spiritually to be alike” a suggested match would be:

    Spiritual unity is derived

    from the consciousness that

    each of you is indwelt,

    and increasingly dominated,

    by the spirit gift of the heavenly Father

     

    [Paper 141:5.1, page 1591:6]

    #17046
    Vern
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    Vern wrote:  Today, 4 September is “Fear is man’s chief enslaver and pride his greatest weakness” a suggested match would be:

    …will you betray yourself

    into bondage to both of these

    destroyers of joy and liberty?

     

    [Paper 142:0.2, page 1596:2]

    #17092
    Vern
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    Vern wrote:  Today, 5 September is “The Father in heaven never fails to accept the sincere worship of his children on earth” a suggested match would be:

    Sincere worship connotes

    the mobilization of all the powers

    of the human personality

    under the dominance of the evolving soul

    and subject to the divine directionization

    of the associated Thought Adjuster

     

    [Paper 5:3.7, page 66:3]

    #17107
    Vern
    Vern
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    Vern wrote:  Today, 6 September is “the evidence to all the world that you have been born of the spirit is that you sincerely love one another” a suggested match would be:

    …finding yourself born of the spirit

    and happily in the kingdom of God,

    you would begin to bear in your daily life

    the abundant fruits of the spirit

     

    [Paper 142:6.7, page 1602:6]

    #17148
    Vern
    Vern
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    Vern wrote:  Today, 7 September is “Real families are built upon tolerance, patience and forgiveness” a suggested match would be:

    The father is supremely interested

    in the progressive welfare of his progeny

     

    [Paper 142:7.10, page 1604:5]

    #17178
    Vern
    Vern
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    Vern wrote:  Today, 8 September is “You must realize that the best method of solving some entangled problems is to forsake them for a time” a suggested match would be:

    …your problem is found to

    have shrunk in size and proportions

    while you have been

    resting your mind and body

     

    [Paper 143:3.3, page 1611:1]

    #17195
    Vern
    Vern
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    Vern wrote: Today, 9 September is “Work should alternate with play religion should be balanced by humour” a suggested match would be:

    Profound philosophy

    should be relieved by rhythmic poetry.

    The strain of living — the time tension

    of personality — should be relaxed

    by the restfulness of worship

     

    [Paper 143:7.3, page 1616:5]

    #17231
    Vern
    Vern
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    Vern wrote:  Today, 10 September is “Worship is intended to anticipate the better life ahead and then to reflect on these new spiritual significances back into the life which now is” a suggested match would be:

    Prayer is spiritually sustaining,

    but worship is divinely creative

     

    [Paper 143:7.5, page 1616:7]

    #17232
    Vern
    Vern
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    Vern wrote:  Today, 11 September is “Worship is the act of a part identifying itself with the whole the finite with the infinite the son with the Father” a suggested match would be:

    Worship is the technique

    of looking to the One

    for the inspiration

    of service to the many

     

    [Paper 143:7.6, page 1616:8]

    #17245
    Vern
    Vern
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    Vern wrote:  Today, 12 September is “Do you not realize that the hope of a better world is bound up in the progress and enlightenment of the individual?” a suggested match would be:

    ‘A new heart also

    will I give you,

    and a new spirit will

    I put within you’

     

    [Paper 145:2.7, page 1630:3]

    #17254
    Vern
    Vern
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    Vern wrote:  Today, 13 September is “The Father in heaven has forgiven you even before you have thought to ask him a suggested match would be:

    …but such forgiveness is not available

    in your personal religious experience

    until such a time as you

    forgive your fellow men

    [Paper 146:2.4, page 1638:4]

    #17258
    Vern
    Vern
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    Vern wrote:  Today, 14 September is “The sincerity of any prayer is the assurance of its being heard” a suggested match would be:

    …spiritual wisdom and universe consistency

    of any petition is the determiner

    of the time, manner, and

    degree of the answer

     

    [Paper 146:2.6, page 1639:1]

    #17272
    Vern
    Vern
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    Vern wrote:  Today, 15 September is “When you have become wholly dedicated to the doing of the will of the Father in heaven, the answer to all your petitions will be forthcoming…” a suggested match would be:

    What the

    true son desires

    and the

    infinite Father

    wills IS

     

    [Paper 146:2.7, page 1639:2]

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