[Faith-talk] FW: [thefamilyoffaith] The Power of Holding Hands

[Eric Calhoun]

This is what I'm going through on Facebook right now.  But I know new
friends will come along, just as the wave wipes away the sandcastle by the
waves.


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From: "Mary Ann" <serenity77 at shaw.ca>
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Subject: [thefamilyoffaith] The Power of Holding Hands
Date: 
Fri, 3 Jun 2011 05:02:14 -0600







The Power of Holding Hands

               -- By Rabbi Harold Kushner

I was sitting on a beach one summer day, watching two children, a boy and
a 
girl, playing in the sand.

They were hard at work building an elaborate sandcastle by the water's
edge 
with gates and towers and moats and internal passages. Just when they had

nearly finished their project, a big wave came along and knocked it down,

reducing it to a heap of wet sand.

I expected the children to burst into tears, devastated by what had
happened 
to all their hard work. But they surprised me. Instead, they ran up the 
shore away from the water, laughing and holding hands, and sat down to
build 
another castle.

I realized that they had taught me an important lesson. All the things in

our lives, all the complicated structures we spend so much time and
energy 
creating, are built on sand.

Only our relationships to other people endure. Sooner or later, the wave 
will come along and knock down what we have worked so hard to build up.
When 
that happens, only the person who has somebody's hand to hold will be
able 
to laugh.