The nails in the fence (A story to control your temper)

There once was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to hand him a bag of nails and said that every time the boy lost his temper, he had to hammer a nail into the fence.

On the first day, the boy hammered 37 nails into that fence.

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The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next few weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased.

He discovered it was easier to control his temper than to hammer those nails into the fence.

Finally, the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day he kept his temper under control.

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.

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“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.”

In a moment of anger, emotions want to explode and it is also probalbe that words want to add a bit of combustion to start a fire. However, it is not the right thing to do. Instead of letting our emotions take control, we have to control them to aviod saying or doing things that might leave painful consecuences.

The Bible has the perfect advice fo us in relation to this kind of emotions. It says “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.” Ephesians 4:26-27.

God has given us selfcontrol through His Holy Spirit for (Galatians 5:22-23) us to live according to His will and living in peace with ourselves and other by respecting each others.

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