Thought you'd all enjoy this . . . .

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The Fence

There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a
bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper,to
hammer a nail into the back fence. The first day the boy had
driven
37 nails into the fence. Then it 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 donewell,
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.
Friends are a very rare jewel, indeed.
They make you smile and encourage you to succeed.
They lend an ear, they share a word of praise, and they always
want
to open their hearts to us.

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Have a wonderful day . . . friends!  "A word fitly spoken is like
apples of gold in pictures of silver."  (Prov 25:11)


Blessings,

Jan Ross
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