David Lieb wrote:
>> I think there is a lesson for all of us, there. Something akin
>> to having no shoes.
>
> You say that like it is a bad thing....
No, just the opposite. The quote comes from Sadi, a 13th century
Persian scholar who wrote in "The Gulistan": "I never complained of the
vicissitudes of fortune, nor suffered my face to be overcast at the
revolution of the heavens, except once, when my feet were bare, and I
had not the means of obtaining shoes. I came to the chief of Kfah in a
state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet. I returned
thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies." Thus, by seeing others
far worse off than ourselves, we begin to appreciate that which God has
given us.
Buster Evans
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