SPOKEN WORDS CAN' T BE RETRIEVED
( humantalents)
A farmer slandered his neighbor. Realizing his mistake, he went to
the
preacher to ask for forgiveness. The preacher told him to take a bag
of
feathers and drop them in the center of town. The farmer did as he
was
told . Then the preacher asked him to go and collect the feathers
and put them back in the bag. The farmer tried but couldn't as the
feathers had all blown away. When he returned with the empty bag,
the preacher said, "The same thing is true about your words. You
dropped them rather easily but you cannot retrieve them, so be very
careful in choosing your words."
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This one hit me good...I realize that in my
"asking for forgiveness instead of permission" is very much like
this and when I really understand this story, it doesn't feel so
hot.
I never want to hurt anyone or anything...
However, only a few days after writing this
piece, I found myself in a similar situation and was caught
off-guard by my passion and investment in the future... |