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Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Will to Be Well by Charles Brody Patterson, published in 1901.

Day by day we are writing the record of life's journey. Day by day our minds are becoming filled with the pictures of life that are hourly occurring.

Thoughts center the mind and then seem to fade. But do they pass away? By no means.

We have a great storehouse where in all incidents, both great and small, are restored.

They all go to complete the book of life.

They are an accumulation of experiences through which we eventually find our way from earth to heaven, from the animal to the spiritual.

Nothing is forgotten.

Everything, whether it be little or great, exert some influence on our lives. Life is as truly made up of little things as of the so-called important events. The small incidents of life are treasured with greater ones.

The kind word, the pleasant look, these are not forgotten.

The harsh word and the angry frown likewise leave their mark.

In a person's life, all that they have, all that they can truly call their own,

are the experiences through which they passed and the knowledge acquired from them.

We may not regard our bodies our own, for the time comes when the planet claims that which has been loan for a season.

But the one thing that we can claim for our own is the knowledge acquired through experience. This can never be recalled from you, for it belongs to your

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