JOSHUA TIME 516

"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer" Romans 12:12

Friends > > > > 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 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 benefits in stone. > They > say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate > them, a > day to love them, but then an entire life to forget them. > > > > Send this phrase to the people you'll never forget. If you don't send it > to > anyone, it means you're in a hurry and t hat you've forgotten your friends. > Take > the time to live! Do not value the THINGS you have in your life. But > value WHO > you have in your life...'Nuff said... >