Tuesday, November 6, 2007

AN EARTHLY MESSAGE WITH A HEAVENLY MEANING


There is a story about two friends who were walking through the desert. Halfway through the journey they had an argument and one friend slapped the other in the face.

The one who was slapped felt 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 began to drown and his friend saved him. When he recovered from the ordeal, he wrote on a stone: "Today my best friend saved my life."

His friend asked him, "Why, after I hurt you, did you write in the sand and now you write on a stone?"

The man, smiling, replied: "When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness can erase it away. And when something great happens, we should engrave it on the stone of the memory of our heart, where no wind can erase it."

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Beautiful story isn't it? Don't we wish that the winds would just blow all the hurts and pain away?? As Christians, we are to forgive one another, simply because Christ forgave us. Holding grudges and hurts in our hearts does not do any good to us, only more harm. When we forgive one another, then God will forgive us. Just like what the man did, instead of writing on the rock what his friend had done to him, he wrote it on the sand, illustrating to us that we should forgive and forget the wrong done to us.
the famous saying: Forgive and Forget!
Remember the good things that have been done to you, and inscribe them on the stone, the memory of our heart!
Hope you are blessed by this simple, short story! Have a great day, week, and year!
Good night! -) Zzzzz
Sincerely: dpyc

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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