“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice.”
Meister Eckhart
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God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'
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Ward turns the day into a gift receipt. Most of us spend 86,400 seconds without using a single one to say thanks.
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