by Max Lucado
‘What you say can mean life or death.’ Proverbs 18:21
Nathaniel Hawthorne came home heartbroken. He’d just been fired from his job in
the custom house. His wife, rather than responding with anxiety, surprised him with
joy. “Now you can write your book!”
He wasn’t so positive. “And what shall we live on while I’m writing it?”
To His amazement she opened a drawer and revealed a wad of money she’d saved out of her housekeeping budget. “I always knew you were a man of genius,” she told him. “I always knew you’d write a masterpiece.”
She believed in her husband. And because she did, he wrote. And because he wrote, every library in America has a copy of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
You have the power to change someone’s life simply by the words you speak. “What you say can mean life of death.”
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Max Lucado
From: A Love Worth Giving
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