My Own Life

Oh, what needless pain we bear. All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer!

That hit me today.  Recently, I’ve struggled with many things.  None of them big things but things nevertheless.  And as I thought about what I have been doing the wrong way and what I wanted to change, I wondered if I could do it.  This one verse reminded me that there was absolutely no reason for me to worry.  In fact, I was worrying because I refused to put my problems at the feet of the Lord.  Blessed be the name of the Lord. 

I don’t usually like email forwards but this one I really liked.  I don’t believe in useless forwarding so, I decided to post it here.   

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. 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 be. 

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.

Please forgive me if I have ever left a hole