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The Effect of Angry Words 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 each day 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 boy soon discovered that taking them out was even harder than driving them in! The days passed and one day 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 these. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out, but it doesn't matter how many times you say ‘I'm sorry,’ the wound is still there." |
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REFLECTION A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. But Christs spirit living in us helps us to speak only words of kindness and assistance to those around us. |
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