“Was there no one to return and give thanks to God except this foreigner?” (Luke 17:18).
A legend tells about a servant whose master died, leaving the servant a bag of blessings, full to the brim. “The bag will always be full,” said the master, “so long as you remember the four magic words.” As the servant started off on his merry way, he partook of the blessings in the bag until finally the bag was almost empty. He then sought desperately to remember the words, but he could not. He asked a wise man nearby what the four words were. He was told, “Perhaps the words are ‘I wish I had.’” So, with his nearly empty bag, he ran down the road shouting, “I wish I had! I wish I had! I wish I had as much as all my neighbors have of the blessings of health and wealth and such!” But still the bag held no more blessings. Further along the way, he…
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