SAND
AND STONE
A story tells
that two friends were walking through
the desert.
During some point of the journey, they
had an argument,
and one friend slapped the other
one in the
face. The one who got slapped was hurt,
but without
saying anything, he wrote in the sand:
Today my best
friend slapped me in the face.
They kept
on walking, until they found an oasis,
where they
decided to take a bath. The one who had
been slapped
got stuck in the mire and started
drowning,
but his friend saved him. After he
recovered
from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone:
Today my best
friend saved my life.
The friend,
who had slapped and saved his best
friend, asked
him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in
the sand,
and now, you write on a stone, why?"
The other
friend replied: "When someone hurts us,
we should
write it down in sand, where the winds of
forgiveness
can erase it away, but when someone
does something
good for us, we must engrave it in
stone where
no wind can ever erase it.
Learn to write
your hurts in the sand and to carve
your blessings
in stone.
Author Unknown
Music "Winds
Of God"
Daily
Reflections Midi Pages
