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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~
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