Blessings in our lives

I got an e-mail with this story attached:

A story was told of two men who were walking in the desert. They had an argument and one of the men slapped the other. The one who had been slapped knelt down and wrote a message in the sand, "Today my best friend slapped me." Then they moved on. They came to an oasis and waded into the water. The man who had previously been slapped began sinking into the mud. The other pulled him out. The man who had been slapped and then saved carved into a stone, "Today my best friend saved me." The other man asked his friend why he had written in the sand that he'd slapped him but carved into stone that he'd saved him. The man replied that whenever something unkind is done to us we should write it in the sand where the winds of forgiveness can easily blow it away; but when something kind and good is done to us we should carve it into stone that we may always remember the blessings in our lives.

We all do things and say things that we don't mean and later regret and we all have weakness and we all make mistakes...we're all in need of the winds of forgiveness to blow our misdeeds away sometimes. And we all have days when monuments of our kindnesses would help us remember the goodness inside of us.