The following story that is a prime example of the love of friends. Its application moves on to love for our families and our love for God.
A story is told of two friends who 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, he 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 his friend saved him.
After he recovered from the near drowning, he carved 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 carve on a stone, why?”
The other friend replied: “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand, where the 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.”
You may not be able to carve something good that is done for you in stone, but you can write it on the mind and heart and remember it from time to time as an aid to expressing love for someone for whom you care for.
Pastor Kevin Martineau quoted in Pastor Tim [mailto:posts@cybersaltlists.org] Cybersalt News, Today’s Illustration
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