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Thankfulness


A man entered the room interrupting the class: ‘O master, your merchant ships sunk in the middle of the sea!’ The Master replied ‘thank God’. After a while, the same man came and said ‘they were someone else’s, not yours’ The master replied again ‘thank God’. His disciples curiously asked him the reason he replied both in the same manner. He said ‘Neither former news upset me nor the latter pleased. It was not my loss because the ships were in fact my Lord’s, not mine. There is no profit for me either, because they are still not mine. Therefore, I thank God for freeing my soul from which do not belong to me.’
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