23rd Sunday – Gospel Illustration - Matthew 18:15–20 – Written in StonePresentation Transcript
- Written in Stone Contributed by: A. M. Berry
- Two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey, they had an argument and one friend slapped the other on the face. The one who was 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 mud and started to drown 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 both slapped and saved his life asked him: ‘After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now I helped you wrote in stone, why?’'
- The friend replied, “When someone hurts us we should write it in the sand so the winds of forgiveness can erase the hurt.” But when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.” We should learn to write our hurts in the sand and carve our benefits in stone. The winds of forgiveness are a beautiful thing. Ask the Holy Spirit to blow away the hurts, our sins, and carve into the Book of Life the good that we do. When we deal with other humans it is good to remember, To err is human to forgive Divine. If God can forgive us, who are we not to forgive others (1 John 1:9)?
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