The following was in her parish bulletin this weekend.
Two friends were walking through the desert. At one point of the journey, they had an argument and one friend slapped the other round the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but, without saying anything, wrote in the sand, "Today my friend slapped me round the face."
They kept walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to go for a swim. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and began to drown, but his friend saved him. After he had recovered, he wrote on a stone, "Today my friend saved my life."
The one who had first slapped and later saved his friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand, and now you write on a stone. Why?" The friend replied, "When someone hurts us we should write it down in the sand where the winds of forgiveness can blow it away. But when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.
Thought of the Day
