Compassion is the pain a father feels when his son hurts his hand playing ball, the pang a mother knows when her daughter is not invited to the party she had her heart set on….the tears a child sheds for the limp foot of his dog or the broken arm of her doll….the sigh a judge heaves when he must pronounce a strong sentence…the forgiveness a man grants toward one who has hurt him, the pleading of Moses when the people were to be destroyed because of their golden idol. It is the eternal mercy of the Lord… - from A Contemporary High Holy Day Service
“To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.” John W. Roper Those who get in trouble most often are those cannot seem to keep still, remain silent. Life teaches many lessons. Among the best lessons of life is one my father taught me at an early age was, “If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing.” The contributions we make to life via our mouth are many and varied. Most of the time, I reckon, they are not contributions at all, but things that diminish the richness of life.
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