Two friends
were walking through the desert.
During some point of the journey, they had an
argument and one friend slapped
the other in the face. The one who got slapped was
hurt, but without saying
anything, 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 drowing, but the 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 writed it down in sand where 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 benefits in stone.
They
say it
takes a minute to find a special
person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love
them, but then an entire
life to forget them. Do not value the things you have in your
life, but value who you
have in your life.
Copyright on
Devotional John Mark
Ministries
Devotional from
Tues. Jan. 3, 2006
Author:
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