THE PIECE OF OAK

A father handed his son a piece of smooth oak, and said to him, "This is your board. For every mistake you make, I will hammer in a nail"
By the time the boy was thirteen, the board was covered corner to corner with nails, some rusted, some shining new. The father took the board to his son and said, "For every good thing you do to fix all of these wrongs, I will take one nail out."
And it was not too long before the father took the last nail out the proudly showed his son the
clean piece of oak. Yet when son saw the board, his eyes brimmed with tears. He turned to his father and said, "But father, what about the holes?...


REFERENCE: SOUL PRINTS BY MARC GAFNI