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He Held My
Hands
There was an atheist couple who had a child.
The couple never told their daughter anything about the
Lord. One night
when the little girl was 5 years old, the parents fought with
each other and the dad shot the mom, right in front of the
child. Then, the
dad shot himself. The
little girl watched it all.
She then was sent to a foster home.
The foster mother was a Christian and took the child to
church. On the
first day of Sunday school, the foster mother told the teacher
that the girl had never heard of Jesus, and to have patience
with her. The
teacher held up a picture of Jesus and said, “Does anyone
know who this is?” The
little girl said, “I do, that's the man who was holding me
the night my parents died."
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Friends
Forever
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 and the father suggested that
the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to
hold his temper. The
day 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 a very rare jewel
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.
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