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FORGIVENESS
A story tells that two friends were walking through the
desert. During some point in the journey they had an argument, and one friend
slapped the other 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 and
remember to send it also to the person who sent it to you. It’s a short
message to let them know that you’ll never forget them. If you don’t send it
to anyone, it means you’re in a hurry and that you’ve forgotten your
friends. Take the time to live!!!
"May the Lord of peace himself give you His peace no
matter what happens.
The Lord be with you all." 2 Thessalonians 3:16
THE POWER OF A LETTER
Most of you know John Wayne as an actor. You may not know
what happened to him before he died. This is that story! Robert Schuller’s
teenage daughter, Cindy, was in a motorcycle accident and had to have her leg
amputated. John Wayne was a big fan of Robert Schuller. He heard Dr. Schuller
say on one of his programs that his daughter had been in an accident and had to
have her leg amputated.
John Wayne wrote a note to her saying: "Dear Cindy,
Sorry to hear about your accident. Hope you will be all right." Signed,
John Wayne The note was delivered to her and she decided she wanted to write
John Wayne a note in reply. She wrote: "Dear Mr. Wayne, I got your note.
Thanks for writing to me. I like you very much. I am going to be all right
because Jesus is going to help me. Mr. Wayne, do you know Jesus? I sure hope you
know Jesus, Mr. Wayne, because I cannot imagine Heaven being complete without
John Wayne being there. I hope, if you don’t know Jesus, that you will give
your heart to Jesus right now. See you in Heaven." And she signed her name.
She had just put that letter in an envelope, sealed it, and wrote across the
front of it "John Wayne" when a visitor came into the room to see her.
He said to her: "What are you doing?" She said: "I just wrote a
letter to John Wayne, but I don’t know how to get it to him." He said:
"That’s funny, I am going to have dinner with John Wayne tonight at the
Newport Club down at Newport Beach. Give it to me and I will give it to
him." Cindy gave him the letter and her friend put it in his coat pocket.
There were twelve of them that night sitting around the table
for dinner. They were laughing and cutting up and the friend happened to reach
in his pocket and felt the letter and remembered. John Wayne was seated at the
end of the table and the guy took the letter out and said: "Hey Duke, I was
in Schuller’s daughter’s room today and she wrote you a letter and wanted me
to give it to you. Here it is." They passed it down to John Wayne and he
opened it. They kept on laughing and cutting up and someone happened to look
down at John Wayne. He was crying. One of them said: "Hey, Duke, what’s
the matter?" He said (and can’t you hear him saying it), " I want to
read you this letter."
He read the letter. Then he began to weep. He folded it, put
it in his pocket, and he pointed to the man who delivered it to him and said:
"You go tell that little girl that right now, in this restaurant, right
here, John Wayne gives his heart to Jesus Christ and I will see her in
heaven."
Three weeks later John Wayne died. You never know how your
witness to another will effect their eternity!
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