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Today's reading was edited and adapted from Love's Away by Orison Sweat Martin, published in 1918.

After an ugly scar had been made by a stone quarry in the mountainside opposite John Ruskin's

home, destroying the beauty of his favorite

landscape. He placed a big chair in front of the window of his study so that it would conceal

the scar from him while working because it disturbed the harmony of his thought.

If you have received an ugly scar from someone, perhaps whom you trusted and believed in,

if you have a sore spot, a tender spot anywhere that marrs your happiness,

don't aggravate your pain by looking at it, keeping the sore open by revealing a painful experience

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