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Sand & Stones
[
This is a story with a moral and was sent first by Bro.
Darrel Fooks
of
Lodge
Bundaleeah Daylight No 992 and
Lodge Journeyman No 2002
United
Grand Lodge of NSW & ACT. Bro. Honorio, a regular
contributor
to our site has also recently forwarded the story.]
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, 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 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
write
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.
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