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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, November-December 1942

1942-12-11 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 3

married to make these things balance. Our worship hasn't been in church much. It is true as you said that the church as a material location is no more sacred than many other places and less so perhaps than some. But we have had the capacity and the appreciation to worship and have done it both alone and together lots of times since we've known each other and since we've been married. If you didn't mind it, or maybe even liked it a little, then it pleased me more than anything else you did that day. I'm proud of you and like to have you go places with me the same as I go places with you. The Lords prayer is a pretty good thing to think about. After one has learned it and voluntarily and consciously thought about it, you'd be surprised how it will seem to come to you automatically sometimes and take on a new and fuller meaning. Try it and see honey. Like when I waited on Mother at the very end, the whole prayer seemed to go one phrase after the other very carefully in my thoughts and it seemed like Mother's life had been a living sample of a life and faith and trust like that. Here I'm off again in a feeble effort to put on paper a big idea that seems to defy me in my efforts to express it. Because we love maybe you can read enough between the lines to understand what I want to say. I would have been too insecure to give myself so frankly in expressions of love, such as we've had recently, at first. Now it seems all the sweeter that we were conservative so long. The security, love and affection of you for me I never doubt.

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married to make these things balance. Our worship hasn't been in church much. It is true as you said that the church as a material location is no more sacred than many other places and less so perhaps than some. But we have had the capacity and the appreciation to worship and have done it both alone and together lots of times since we've known each other and since we've been married. If you didn't mind it, or maybe even liked it a little, then it pleased me more than anything else you did that day. I'm proud of you and like to have you go places with me the same as I go places with you. The Lords prayer is a pretty good thing to think about. After one has learned it and voluntarily and consciously thought about it, you'd be surprised how it will seem to come to you automatically sometimes and take on a new and fuller meaning. Try it and see honey. Like when I waited on Mother at the very end, the whole prayer seemed to go one phrase after the other very carefully in my thoughts and it seemed like Mother's life had been a living sample of a life and faith and trust like that. Here I'm off again in a feeble effort to put on paper a big idea that seems to defy me in my efforts to express it. Because we love maybe you can read enough between the lines to understand what I want to say. I would have been too insecure to give myself so frankly in expressions of love, such as we've had recently, at first. Now it seems all the sweeter that we were conservative so long. The security, love and affection of you for me I never doubt.