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Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Magic Word by Robert Collier, published in 1940.

In an old pamphlet written by Don Blanding, he tells of a time during the trying years of the Great Depression,

when he found himself financially, mentally and physically broke. He was suffering from insomnia,

and from a physical lethargy amounting almost to paralysis.

Worst of all, he had a bad case of self-pity, and he felt that the self-pity was fully justified.

He was staying at a small Ark colony,

trying to rebuild his wrecked life and wretched body.

Among those at the colony was Mike, a Hawaiian boy.

Mike seemed to be always cheerful, always prosperous.

And naturally, Blending wondered why.

So one day he asked Mike what good fairy had waved her wand over him,

and turned all that now he touched into gold.

For an answer, Mike pointed to a string of letters he had pasted over his bed.

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