The Prophet & The Priest

One day, as the Prophet and the Priest traveled south on the road to Sudbar, the Priest asked the Prophet,

“How would you measure love’s worth?”

The Prophet thought for a while, then knelt down and picked up a small grain of sand. He held it up to the Sun,

“With this” he said.

The Priest, surprised by the Prophets answer, asked him how such a tiny grain of sand could possibly measure the worth of love?

The Prophet then threw the grain up in the air, letting the wind blow it into the desert.

“Find it and you shall know your answer” he said.

“It would take me a thousand lifetimes to find that same grain of sand in such a vast desert” the Priest replied.

“Ahh you see” the Prophet explained, “then you would have measured loves worth“.

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