Sand and Stone . . .

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 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."

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, (5) does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, (6) does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; (7) bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.