Fw: [EnergieWerk] Fwd: Hurtful Words

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A story with a lesson from another group I'm on. Blessings, Joy

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There once was a little girl who had a bad temper. Her mother gaveher a bag of nails and told her that every time she lost her temper,she must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.The first day the girl had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over thenext few weeks, as she learned to control her anger, the number ofnails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. She discovered it waseasier to hold her temper than to drive those nails into the fence.Finally the day came when the girl didn't lose her temper at all. Shetold her mother about it and the mother suggested that the girl nowpull out one nail for each day that she was able to hold her temper.The day passed and the young girl was finally able to tell her motherthat all the nails were gone.The mother took her daughter by the hand and led her to the fence.She said, "You have done well, my daughter, but look at the holes inthe fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things inanger, they leave a scar just like this one." You can put a knife ina person and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say "I'msorry", the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as aphysical one.