The gift

[kal...@att.net]

A couple of weeks ago one of the guys in one of my prison groups told me the following story.  He said he was in the gym one day and was confronted by this other guy.  It was ugly and so he left the gym and went to where he had hide a homemade knife (or shiv).  Before he told me this he looked around to make sure the guard wouldn't overhear him...    He got the knife and was intending to go back and "hold his own" by stabbing this guy.  However, on the way back to the gym some words from one of our meetings came back to him and he stopped.  He put the knife back and then walked for a very long time around the yard.  He decided to let the whole thing go.

If he would have stabbed the man, the man could have possibly died.  Our man would have been caught and instead of getting out in a couple of years, he would have been in for the rest of his life - he's very young.  Two lives would have been lost.  But he stopped his action.

This is the biggest gift I can think of.  If our years of work does nothing else, it has already been returned to us tenfold by this huge gift.  How precious is each human life!

I bow to the Buddha's in all of us!

Kalen

kal...@att.net

[Judy Hopen]

wonderful!

lovely!