You reap what you sow

Galations 6:7 says that you reap what you sow.  I caught the middle of a story told by Joel Osteen earlier this evening and wanted to comment on it.  He was telling a story about a father and son, now I didnt hear where they were exactly so just for the sake of making a point, lets say that they were at the Grand Canyon.  He was saying that the little boy yelled out HELLO and in a few seconds someone yelled back HELLO, then he yelled out HOW ARE YOU and in a few seconds someone yelled back to him HOW ARE YOU.  He asked his father, Daddy who is it that is yelling back at me and the father explained that it was an echo from the canyon that sends back every word that is said to the person that says it.  Well as the bible says life is like that ...every action and word sent out is sent back to the sender.  I personally think in pictures, when I was younger I imagined a giant boomerang and on the boomerang written in big letters was the treatement that I had dished out to a person whether good or bad or the words in all caps that I had spoken whether negative or positive well that boomerang was thrown out into space and hurled right back to me.  The first time that this really hit home was after I had my first child.  I am embarrassed to say this but I wasnt the most respectful daughter to my mother and grandmother, in fact I was a brattiest brat there was.  Now my daughter is almost 23 and sometimes the way she treats me is like looking in a mirror as to when I was her age with regards to the way I treated my parents.  They are gone now, and believe me I wish I could turn back time, but as we all know that is not possible, so the best thing that I can add is when you send that boomerang with your actions or words written on the top in all caps remember, that it is returning to you the way you sent it out.  Hope this helps someone out there that knows what I am speaking of.