Mad about something, think twice!

There was once a little boy who had a bad temper. One day, his father thought of an idea, and gave the little a bag full of nails. The father advised him that every time when he lost his temper, he should hammer a nail into the back of the fence, which besiege the house they live. The first day, the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learnt to control his anger (exhausted of all energy to flare up from hammering nails into the fence), the nuber of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled overtime.

The little boy discovered that it was easier to control 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 his father suggested that the little boy now pull out all the nails, one by one, for each day that he was able to control his temper. The days passed and the little boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

The father then took his little boy, precious son by the hand and led him to the fence, and he said, "you have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same again. So when you are pissed, angry or flaring, saying things that hurt, will leave scars just like these holes here."

Anger leads to resentment. Scars are like cracks in the wall, which cannot be healed completely humanly/human works. No matter how much we make up, or allow time to pass, we can never fully heal the brokenness others have inflicted on us, or vice versa. Thus, when we realise we are nothing, and can be so fragile.... we sense the presence of someone greater above, who seem to understand our sufferings. And thus, we turn to this source of peace.