[Grovenet] NAIL IN THE FENCE

[Ed Davie]

Alan, I can't read this because of the noise in 
the background!
Ed
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alan L Domenghini
  To: GroveNet at rdrop.com
  Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 9:45 AM
  Subject: [Grovenet] 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
  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"
  It's National Friendship Week. Show your friends 
how
  much you care. Send this to everyone you 
consider a FRIEND, even if it
  means sending it back to the person who sent it 
to you. If it comes back
  to you, then you'll know you have a circle of 
friends.
  YOU ARE MY FRIEND AND I AM HONORED!
  Now send this to every friend you have!! And to 
your
  family




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