By: David S. Harkins d.b.a. “TheStoryTeller”

On a magnificently beautiful day, two friends were walking down the road discussing life and all of its ramifications. As they walked Bill said to Joe. “It is more important to be right than anything else in the world.” Joe heartily agreed and they walked on. Having agreed to this statement they began to discuss Spiritual matters.

 

While they were walking and talking Joe remembered a passage from the Bible about the skies but He couldn’t quote it and wasn’t really sure what Jesus, the Great Teacher, acclaimed by many and certified by God in the very Book of Life as the Son of God, had actually said, so he looked up into the sky and saw a wonderful blue hue and said to Bill, I know that Jesus must have said the sky is blue.”

 

Bill was not sure either what Jesus had said about the sky, but he said very emphatically, to Joe, “Joe, the sky is red!”

 

Thus ensued a great argument amongst the two fast friends, each defending his firm belief in the color of the sky. Soon they were calling each other derogatory names and cursing and swearing and chiding and deriding each other. Why, Joe, had the audacity to point up to the sky and say, “look Bill, see I told you the sky is blue.” This direct appeal to the evidence at hand, at least in Joe’s mind sealed the deal and won the argument, only to hear Bill rebuttal, that his faith is much clearer than Joe’s sight and that he was just the more convinced that the sky is red and he didn’t need to look up at the sky to be confused by any tricks or magic or distorted logic.

 

Finally after much uproar and great tension and to the point of great animosity between the two now former friends, Joe said to Bill, “You are a fool, Bill, I will never speak to you again.”

 

That night Joe was remorseful at the thought of losing his best friend and all because of a petty thing like the color of the sky. He tossed and turned in bed and thought how unchristian like he had been, cursing and swearing and attacking his friend’s intelligence and most of all, his firm but, however, misguided belief. At the crack of dawn he chanced to take a peak at his beautiful sky and what do you know the sky was red.

If you haven’t figured out the moral to this story, then when you next think about arguing with anyone about anything, think about what color the sky is, was, or will be.

 

The End

 

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