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Giving to Get
Contributed by Brendan P. Edet to Reader's Digest, January 1997, p. 98
Giving to Get
Contributed by Brendan P. Edet to Reader's Digest, January 1997, p. 98
A businessman who needed millions of dollars to clinch an important deal went to church to pray for the money. By chance he knelt next to a man who was praying for $100 to pay an urgent debt. The businessman took out his wallet and pressed $100 into the other man's hand. Overjoyed, the man got up and left the church. The businessman then closed his eyes and prayed, "And now, Lord, that I have your undivided attention…."
