TWO FRIENDS
It is the story of two friends who were walking in the desert.
At one point, they quarreled and one of them slapped the other. The latter, in pain but saying nothing, wrote in the sand:
TODAY, MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME
They continued walking and then found an oasis, in which they decided to swim. But the one who had been slapped nearly drowned, and his friend saved him.
When he came to, he wrote on a stone:
TODAY, MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE
The one who had slapped him and saved his friend asked him:
When I hurt you, you wrote it in the sand, and now you have written it in stone. Why?
The other friend replied: "When someone hurts us, we must write it in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness can erase it. But when someone does something good for us, we must carve it in stone, where no wind can erase it."
- LET'S LEARN TO WRITE OUR WOUNDS IN THE SAND
AND TO CARVE OUR JOYS INTO STONE -
