An African king had a childhood friend who was very close to
him.
This friend had a curious habit: no matter what the event
whatever happened to him in life, whether positive or negative, he always said:
All is grace!
One day, the king and his friend went hunting. His friend prepared
Rifles for the king. But he probably did something foolish, for a
A gun exploded in the king's hand and cost him his thumb.
At the moment the accident happened, the friend said, as usual,
All is grace!
To this, the king, who was truly angry, replied, “No, he
there is no grace in it” and proved it to his friend by
throwing into prison.
A year later, the king was going to hunt outside his kingdom and
The cannibals captured him and made him a prisoner in their
village. They tied him to a tree trunk and put wood
around him, and prepared to burn him alive for
to eat…
But just as they were about to set fire to it, they realized
that he was missing a thumb. One of their beliefs being that by
if they ate, the same thing would happen to them, so they untied
The king let him go.
On the way back, exhausted and shocked, he remembered the
circumstances in which he had lost his thumb. Barely
Upon arriving, he had himself taken to the prison to speak with his friend.
"You were right, my friend," he said, "it was a blessing that I lost it."
my thumb.
And he then told his friend what had happened to him.
I beg you to forgive me for leaving you to rot in prison
for so long. It was wrong of me to do that to you.
His friend replied to him: “No, quite the opposite, everything is grace!”
What do you mean? How does throwing you in prison
Could you, my friend, be a grace?
Actually, if I hadn’t been in prison, I would have been with you. And
They would have eaten me.
What happens to us in life does not always seem to have
sense. But sometimes, what we judge as negative at the time may
to turn out to be a blessing later on. When something happens to you
problem, know how to look at it from all angles and try to
find the positive in him.
Every change is always a change for the better.
[Neale Donald Walsch]
Have a good day***************Marylena