"Who do you want to hurt?"

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A friend of mine has a daughter who’s four almost five years old. He calls me recently to tell me about discovering that a squirrel had gotten into his attic. Of course the furry-tailed little guy only came into the attic because of the cold weather and only at night. He played immediately overhead of my friend’s bedroom, keeping him up for much of the night. This nocturnal nuisance continued for well over a week…

…until my friend declared war on the squirrel. He got a trap and put it in the attic and finally caught the squirrel. So here’s my friend, operating on little sleep over the last week, he goes into the attic, retrieves the trap with the live critter in it, comes down the stairs, and his daughter says, "Don’t hurt him, Daddy. God made him."

Sometime soon, you’ll want to hurt some nuisance in your life. You’ll be pushed to the limit by her or want to eliminate him. Just remember—God made him. So don’t hurt her. Odds are that person is a lot like you—just trying to come in out of the cold world. So listen to life and give him a break, okay?

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