I love to collect true life stories, fictions and great works of art but every week I prayerful selects what I believe is appropriate for the week. This is another fit for this work week. Enjoy and apply!

A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. In a specific 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 anything to say, 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 got slapped and hurt started drowning, and the other friend saved him. When he recovered from the fright, he wrote on a stone: “TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE”
The friend who saved and slapped his best friend, asked him, “Why, after I hurt you, you wrote in the sand, and now you write on a stone?” The other friend smilingly replied: “When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, so that the winds of forgiveness can erase it away. And when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it”

Moral of the story:Learn to write in the sand, when you have differences and hurt feelings from your friends, spouse, colleagues and loved ones. Learn to write on stone when your friend had done some thing really good to you, appreciate them with genuine love. Life is too short for an experiment on how well we can hold on to offences, we must take on the nature of God who forgives and forget. People have come up with theories, excuses and strong reasons why it’s not just possible to forgive. We must always remember that the wrath of man has not and will never work the righteousness. We must not take laws in ours hand and melt of justice in our intra/inter-personal relationship with others. We must live the life of joy, peace and fulfillment, which God designed us to live. Shalom!