Friday, April 10, 2009

Email received this week

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 that was slapped was hurt and without saying a word, wrote in the sand “today my best friend slapped me in the face.” They kept walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to bathe. The one that who had been slapped started to drown, but the best friend saved him. After recovering from the near drowning, he carved into a stone “Today my best friend saved my life.”

The other friend asked, “when I hurt you, you wrote in the sand, and now you write in the stone, why?” The 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 gifts in stone.
They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, and an entire lifetime to forget them.

DO NOT VALUE THE THINGS YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE, BUT VALUE WHO YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE!

'Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.'

5 comments:

Queen B said...

that is very cool!

KFuj said...

I love this post and it makes perfect sense. Thanks for sharing with us!!

Jane said...

:)

Kim Thomas said...

Nice message!

Andrea said...

I love this. Thanks for sharing!