et us work hard every day at making progress toward God. If we are tested or tempted in our children or in our purses, let's not panic but place our hope in God.

We are Christians, and our homeland is not here. Like good children, let us turn our steps homeward, that our course may be approved and guided to its conclusion.

Prayer. Heal and open my eyes, Lord, that I may recognize your will. Put to flight my foolishness that I may know you.

From John E. Rotelle, O.S.A., Augustine Day by Day: Minute Meditations for Every Day Taken from the Writings of Saint Augustine. Catholic Book Publishing Co. New York, 1986.

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