KEEP YOUR COOL

Should havd posted this last week but was a bit lazy so ... This was in last Sunday's newsletter.

KEEP YOUR COOL

Mark had a bad temper. So, 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 Mark had driven 37 nails into the fencel. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled. 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.

Mark told his father about it and the father suggested that he 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 the scar just like these holes."

Mark's father continued, "You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. But it won't matter how many times you say you're sorry, the wound will still be there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one, so control your temper. Forgive and don't leave a 'hole' in anyone's fence."

Mumsie likes the above passage not about loosing one's temper....but about the verbal wound.
After receiving many many verbal wounds mumsie thinks that it is not easy to mend the many many holes any more!!! Even if one wants to "forgive" one finds it hard to "forget"....!!!!!