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I wanted to share with you a speech that I had to do in the fifth semester of my university and I titled it: "Arena vs Piedra"
The test of a preacher is when his congregation does not come out saying "what a beautiful sermon", but "I will do something" - San Francisco de Sales.
An Arab legend says that two friends traveled through the desert and argued bitterly. One of them slapped the other. This offended, wrote in the arena: "Today my best friend gave me a slap." They continued on their way and came to an oasis, where they decided to bathe. The one who had been slapped was choking, and the other came to his rescue. When he recovered, he took a chisel and wrote on a stone: "Today my best friend saved my life". Intrigued, he asked:
- Why after you hurt you wrote in the sand, and now you write in stone?
-When a great friend offends us, we must write it in the sand, where the wind of oblivion and forgiveness will erase it. When something great happens to us, we must engrave it on the stone of the heart, where no wind can make it disappear.
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This is not just about friendship, but to put it into practice in every area of your life, forgiveness frees you and makes you walk lighter, sometimes it costs us because there is something very common that influences and is: pride and society . Forgiving is not a feeling, it is a decision that every day when you wake up, you have to take it. Sooner or later the lack of forgiveness is making a wound in your whole body, you are feeling distressed and without strength and that is where you start to walk without direction.
Have you not noticed that when a person is in his last minutes of life, he needs to see that individual who hurt the most so that he can go "peacefully" in this way? Do you want to wait for those last minutes?
Sand vs stone is about making a balance between those defects and virtues of that being that one day hurt you, stop living with that hot coal inside your heart, so you can really experience life opening in front of you, new opportunities will emerge as if from nothing. Happy coincidences will occur where you meet the right person at the right time. The ideas or the answers will come to you as you need them. A friend can make a comment, or you open a book or a magazine, or you can listen to a conversation that gives you exactly what you were looking for. Why is this like this? It is because through the practice of forgiveness you become more open to the goodness of life, so that goodness is more able to find your way to you.
