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Welcome to the inspirational living podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from All These Things Added by James Allen, published in 1903.

The mountain bends not to the fiercest storm, but it shields the fledgling and the lamb, and though all people

tread upon it, yet it protects them, and bears them up upon its sturdy bosom.

So it is also with the meek among us, who compassionately bend to shield the lowliest

creature, and though they may be despised, lift all others up and lovingly protect them.

As glorious as the mountain in its silence are the divine man and woman in their silent meekness.

Like the mountainous form, their loving embrace is expansive and sublime.

Truly their body, like the mountain's base, is fixed in the valleys and the mists, but the

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