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Two young boys had their lines cast into the water while their playmate, Diana, skipped stones across the surface.. "Stop that! " Mohamed said, "You're scaring the fish." Just then the other boy, Jesus, felt a tug on his line." As he reeled in his catch, he teased the slightly younger boy. "You are just saying that because your basket is empty and mine is getting full."
Mohamed selected a stone and hurled it high into the air over the bay. As the stone arched down to the water he said: "No matter how high the stone ascends it always submits to the will of Allah." Jesus selected a flat stone and sent it skimming along the surface of the water before it too sank beneath the waves. "Look how the stone generates ripples of change as it passes along the surface of the water on its way to eternity."
Diana selected a small flat stone and sent it on its way across the water. "You two are getting way too philosophical for me. I am merely playing a game. I call it skimming stones."
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