The Copper Coin
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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 543 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
I would like to relate to you a story and an illustration of how precious life is and what we should do to recognize and be grateful for what we’ve got. This is a story that dates back a couple hundred years ago.
Indeed, there was a young man who became a traveling tutor. In these days, he would go from town to town and he would teach the local children for an extended period. In this way, he accumulated, a small fortune of 12 gold coins and one copper coin for his work. He was so happy and he decided to go back home with this money and start a business. Well, during his travel back to his home, he stopped at an inn, and not knowing exactly what to do with all his money, which was a considerable amount of money at the time, he entrusted that money to the innkeeper, and asked him to keep it safely for him until the next morning. The next morning, the innkeeper turned over the purse back to the tutor and gave him back what he had given to him to keep. The tutor began counting his coins and all the 12 coins were there, and then he looked but he couldn’t find the copper one. He asked the innkeeper, “I am missing the copper coin. I don’t know where it is.” (more…)
