2005-10-09

CARVED IN 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, 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.

      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.