"One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone: and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering."
Ida Scott Taylor
1820-1915, Author
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NAIL IN THE FENCE
Please make sure you read all the way down to the last
sentence.
(Most importantly the last sentence)
There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His
Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost
his
temper, he
must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence.
Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger,
the number of nails hammered daily, gradually dwindled down. He
discovered
it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the
fence.
Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at
all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the
boy
now
pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.
The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell
his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by
the
hand
and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but
look
at
the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same.
When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like
this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't
matter
how
many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there."
A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one
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