Good morning and HAPPY WEDNESDAY, wow the days just seem to fly right by as of late, it feels as if it should be only Monday not already mid week! I pray that you "hump" day is going well, that you have only met with smooth sailing this morning and that the rest of the day will be even better!
In prayer this morning I prayed my usual prayers asking God to have mercy on each of us, to allow each of us to see what it is in us that he sees and to guide us in the path to be the best that we can be. I ask him to continue to bless my sweet friend and her mother with days of less confusion, with days of more cherished conversation, and for days of calm peace! I prayed for all who are struggling and suffering the ravages of illness, rehabilitation, addiction, depression, finances, troubles with their children, broken hearts and those suffering the loss of a loved one, asking God to lay his grace filled hands upon each of us and calm the ache and the pain in our spirits and allow us to have renewed faith in all things good. At the end of my prayer as I was closing the thought crossed my heart that we should be aware of what we say in anger, that we should be aware that words leave scars, they hurt and never fully heal, before you speak today in anger think about the words you will say!
Lessons of the fence
Author Unknown
Taken from the South Florida Avenue Messenger
Taken from the South Florida Avenue Messenger
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 in the back fence.
The first day the boy had driven thirty-seven 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 a 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.
“You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When we 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.”
“Know this, my beloved brethren.
Let every man be quick to hear,
slow to speak, slow to anger.” - James 1:19
Let every man be quick to hear,
slow to speak, slow to anger.” - James 1:19
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