“DAILY” DEVOTION-Listening
for the Spirit:
[Jack Newsome told me this
story, and he was a bit uncertain about its details. Forgive us, please, if
Jack and I got some details wrong.]
As a young man, long
before he was a Methodist bishop, Everett Palmer worked on a ranch in the west.
It was a vast and very
successful ranch. Its owner was a good man, who used his great wealth for good
causes, including supporting his brother, who was a missionary doctor.
But the agricultural
economy went bad. Ranching crashed. The man lost everything. When Palmer went
back to visit him, many years after he had worked for him, he found him reduced
to living in a line shack on what used to be his wonderful ranch.
As they talked, Palmer
ventured, “I suppose now maybe you’re sorry you gave so much away.”
His old mentor looked
thoroughly surprised and amazed.
“Oh, no, Everett,” he
said. “All I have now is what I gave away.”
JRMcF
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