As a carpenter went home after closing from his workshop, a black, poisonous cobra entered his workshop.

The cobra was hungry and hoped to find its supper lurking somewhere within. It slithered from one end to another and accidentally bumped into a double-edged metal axe and got slightly injured.

In anger and seeking revenge, the snake bit the axe with full force. What could a bite do to a metallic axe? Instead, the cobra’s mouth started bleeding.

Out of fury and arrogance, the cobra made to strangle and kill the object that was causing it such pain by wrapping itself very tightly around the blades.

The next day when the carpenter opened his workshop, he found a seriously cut, dead cobra wrapped around the axe blades.

The cobra died not because of someone else’s fault but faced these consequences merely because of its own anger.

Sometimes when angry, we try to cause harm to others, but as time passes by, we realise that we have only caused more harm to ourselves instead.

For a happy life, it is best we learn to ignore and overlook some things, people, incidents, affairs and matters.

It is not necessary that we react to everything. Step back and ask yourself if the matter is really worth responding or reacting to.

People that show no inclination to change, are best handled with silence and prayer.

Author Unknown

Meditation: Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry, For anger rests in the bosom of fools. – Ecclesiastes 7:9

You will succeed because Jesus loves You!

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