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Subject: Prints in the sand

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Date Posted: 08:18:08 01/05/02 Sat

One night I had a wondrous dream,
One set of footprints there were seen,
The footprints of my precious Lord,
But mine were not along the shore.

But then some stranger prints appeared,
And I asked the Lord, "What have we here?"
Those prints are large and round and neat,
"But Lord, they are too big for feet."

"My child," He said in somber tones,
"For miles I carried you alone.
I challenged you to walk in faith,
But you refused and made me wait."

"You disobeyed, you would not grow,
The walk of faith, you would not know,
So I got tired, I got fed up,
And there I dropped you on your butt."

"Because in life, there comes a time,
When one must fight, and one must climb,
When one must rise and take a stand,
Or leave their butt prints in the sand."

~Author Unknown~

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Date Posted: 11:51:18 01/05/02 Sat

May your day be great and surrounded in love.
And may you always remember to write in the sand.

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, smiling, replied:
"When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in
the sand, where the winds of forgiveness are in charge
of erasing it away; when something great happens, we
should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart
where no wind can erase it"

Learn to write in the sand.

Author unknown