The Fish Tank<\/b><\/p>\n
At their school carnival, our kids won four free goldfish (lucky us!), so out I went Saturday morning to find an aquarium. The first few I priced ranged from $40 to $70. Then I spotted it\u2014right in the aisle: a discarded 10-gallon display tank, complete with gravel and filter\u2014for a mere five bucks. Sold! Of course, it was nasty dirty, but the savings made the two hours of clean-up a breeze. Those four new fish looked great in their new home, at least for the first day. But by Sunday one had died. Too bad, but three remained. Monday morning revealed a second casualty, and by Monday night a third goldfish had gone belly up. We called in an expert, a member of our church who has a 30-gallon tank. It didn\u2019t take him long to discover the problem: I had washed the tank with soap, an absolute no-no. My uninformed efforts had destroyed the very lives I was trying to protect.<\/p>\n
Sometimes in our zeal to clean up our own lives or the lives of others, we unfortunately use \u201ckiller soaps\u201d\u2014condemnation, criticism, nagging, fits of temper. We think we\u2019re doing right, but our harsh, self-righteous treatment is more than they can bear.<\/p>\n
– Richard L. Dunagin<\/p>\n
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