Monday, February 8. The heart is more treacherous than anything else and is desperate.—Jer. 17:9.

OCTOBER 5: Today my life began. My parents do not know it yet, but it is I already. And I am to be a girl. I shall have blond hair and blue eyes. Just about everything is settled though, even the fact that I shall love flowers.

Sunday, February 7. How are you to flee from the judgment of Gehenna?—Matt. 23:33.

Jehovah's Witnesses in Tajikistan are expecting a verdict from the Supreme Court on their appeal of the decision that terminated the religious group's activities in the country, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports. Yury Toporov, a spokesman in Moscow for the Jehovah's Witnesses, told RFE/RL that the organization filed an appeal with the Supreme Court in December and, according to the law, a review of the appeal must be made within two months of the filing.

Saturday, February 6. From house to house they continued without letup teaching and declaring the good news.—Acts 5:42.