While going through his mother’s Bible recently, John T. Nicodemus decided to share with the Herald what was on the inside front cover. Nicodemus said he thought these passages could help readers.

Ruth A. Nicodemus died in 1987. She had seven prayers/passages taped to the inside of her Bible. They are as follows:

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A Morning Prayer

Help me, dear Lord, to live this day

As you would wish me to­—

And if I fail, then please forgive

The wrong things that I do

Give me the strength to comfort those

Who need a helping hand

Give me a loving heart

That I may...