went off to sleep a night whose like he had not tasted since childhood. This healer says that she never studied the secret of her calling, but she adds to that: It would be a sin for me not to use this gift of mine for the benefit of suffering humanity... Nor does the healing stop at the spinal column: at her door you may see the blind and the crippled and the feeble-minded, all of them seeking cure... And the curious thing is that the animals receive their share of the healing hands. If a dog is stricken with deafness, or a nervous ailment, or paralysis, its master carries it to the healing room... And the farmers of her county have taken to bringing their cows and sheep and other sick animals to be healed by the touch. And the writer adds: After searching study, doctors have found that the disease of cancer, for example, results from fear of that very disease... And here the work of this woman begins: she removes fear and doubt in a way that is beyond the power of ordinary doctors.

The Prayer of Peace
O God, make me an instrument for spreading peace: where hatred reigns, let me sow the seeds of love.
And where injury and aggression abound, let me breathe into souls the spirit of tolerance and forgiveness; and where evil and unbelief reign, let me guide men to faith; and where despair prevails, let me spread hope; and where darkness reigns, let me spread light; and where sorrow prevails, let me spread joy.
Do not permit, O my God, that I fix my thought on what others ought to do for me; rather set my thought on what I ought to do for others; and let me not think of their love for me, but make me think of my love for them.
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