Sunday, May 11, 2008

Lessons learned via email

Below is an email that I had gotten with a story about a lesson learned. I thought it was a good lesson for Grace to read so I had emailed it onto her. About a week later I had recieved an email back with her own written lesson. Below is the email I had passed onto her and Grace's lesson. Aaron and I were almost in tears after reading it!
NAIL IN THE FENCE
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.
Friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to open their hearts to us.'
Please forgive me if I have ever left a hole.

There once was a little girl who got in trouble a lot.So the little girl went to the Mayor of the town.And he said to the little girl that when he was little like her he got in trouble a lot but he did not cry.He just sat there and whined.

Hope you all have learned something from the "Wisdom of Grace"!!
Love,
Sara

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