MONDAY MORNING MANNA: Harry went through the duplicate of every of the letters he sent he sent to loved ones, friends and percieved enemies when he was in the heat of anger. He regretted writing every one of them.
He realised he would have written a better letter if he had taken time to cool off.
He had been too quick to respond and great relationships have been strained beyond repair as a result of the pen held by a man blinded by rage.
More so, he didn't know much about the situations that warranted those letters when he was writing them as he knows today. Some of them were really unnecessary!
So Harry made a rule: Any letters written in anger had to sit on his desk for 24 hours before they could be mailed. If at the end of that “cooling off” period, he still felt the same sentiments, he would send the letter.
By the end of his life, the letters he didn't send after his cooling off periods filled a large desk drawer!
Imagine what irreparable harm those letters would have done to the intended recepients!
How often in this age of instant communication would even 24 minutes of wise restraint spare us from future embarrassment and regrets!
Before you say that word in anger...COOL OFF
Before you make that call in anger...COOL OFF
Before you send that message in anger...COOL OFF
It looks pretty cool to cool off!
The hotheaded do things they'll later regret...(Proverbs 14:17 MSG)
GOOD MORNING!
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