Scattered Thoughts From A Maryland Cottage

Scattered Thoughts From A Maryland Cottage
The Yin and Yang of Thankfulness

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Make new friend but keep the old...

make new friends,
but keep the old,
one is silver,
and the other's
gold.
make new friends,
but keep the old,
one is silver,
and the other's
gold


"What the Wind Can Never Erase"
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 her.
After she recovered from the near drowning,
she wrote on a stone:
"TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE."
The friend who had slapped and
saved her best friend asked her
"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 BLESSINGS IN STONE.

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