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  • Stick and Stones? Not anymore!

    I received this via email from my sister, and thought it would be a nice one to share here, since there are can be so many "sticks and stones" thrown along the way...

    Sand & 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 WINDS OF
    FORGIVENESS CAN ERASE IT AWAY.


    BUT, WHEN SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING GOOD FOR US,
    WE M UST 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.



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    Unfortunately, it can be hard to discern when too much forgiveness leads to being complicit with the actions in your abuser.

    The trouble with being subjected to abuse is that is that your own objectivity can be beaten to a pulp.

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