One thing I love about river stones is this: they’re beautiful; very beautiful, to look at and to hold. These river stones possess a therapeutic property that makes people love to have them. It’s almost as if they have a healing component by the sheer virtue of their smoothness.

But river stones are difficult to form. It is relatively easier for a human person to sculpt a stone with sharp tools. But when nature creates its own sculpture out of a stone, time isn’t of as much essence, because nature is patient. Because the Creator of nature - the Originator of time - is patient. He isn’t in a rush to create His art.

Sculpting river stones is a task that cannot be rushed, because a river stone has to be bombarded extensively by wave after wave of running water over extended periods of time. The water never stops running and the intensity of its currents never dwindles. Only then can a river stone develop the smoothness it was meant to possess.

So let the river flow. The currents may be fierce, and sometimes unbearably so. But I’m a river stone, made to become increasingly smooth as the cruel currents mercilessly throw themselves over me and threaten to drown me out from the scheme of life. But let the river flow, and let me be drowned and forgotten.

One day, when I’m thoroughly smoothened, my therapeutic properties will emerge. Then, by the sheer nature of my being a river stone, I will be a source of healing to those who have been bruised by those who themselves are river stones and do not know it. And those who truly possess the capacity to appreciate nature’s art will know who my Sculptor is.