“Create in me a clean heart.”

HEART: “Mortal feelings, motives, affections, joys, and sorrows” (SH 587:23).

“The manifestation of God through mortals is as light passing through the window-pane. The light and the glass never mingle, but as matter, the glass is less opaque than the walls. The mortal mind through which Truth appears most vividly is that one which has lost much materiality — much error — in order to become a better transparency for Truth. Then, like a cloud melting into thin vapor, it no longer hides the sun” (SH 295:16).

Desideratum: Create in me cleaner, clearer transparency of heart as defined in Mrs. Eddy’s glossary: “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death” (Phil. 4:3); that I may suffer self to die in greater and greater ways. For to allow mortal self to express itself is to smudge or besmear the transparency that God created me to be.