Somewhere someone tells the story of a Sunday School teacher of years gone by who wanted to teach her children about sin, forgiveness and consequences. She gave each child a beautiful and highly polished piece of wood with the instructions to take it home and whenever they did some act or spoke some word that they felt was hurtful and bad, they were to drive a nail in the board. Weeks rolled by and finally came the Sunday when the boards were to be brought back for examination. Of course, all of them had a generous supply of nails and they could talk about the things that brought them about.
