"A wise woman who was traveling in the
mountains found a precious stone in a
stream. The next day she met another
traveler who was hungry, and the wise
woman opened her bag to share her food.
The hungry traveler saw the precious stone
and asked the woman to give it to him. She
did so without hesitation. The traveler left,
rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the
stone was worth enough to give him security
for a lifetime. But a few days later he came
back to return the stone to the wise woman.
"I've been thinking," he said, "I know how
valuable the stone is, but I give it back in
the hope that you can give me something
even more precious. Give me what you have within
you that enabled you to give me
the stone."
-Author Unknown
A friend sent me the above and I thought it was too beautiful to not share.
"Precious Stone" is linked to this and other inspiring nuggets.
3 comments:
Beautiful.
It is a pretty story, but I wanted to comment on something else.
Your bio picture is of three hippopotamuses (hippopotamai?) grazing. Now, it's true that hippos are really cute. And you are really cute too, sweetie, but I don't think of you as a hippo, or even cute in the same way a hippo is cute.
Just so the record is clear.
Well, for the record, that earned you one "get out of the doghouse" free card.
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