You Have The Power To Change Someone's Life, Simply By The Words You Speak

Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Proverbs 18:21 

Nathaniel Hawthorne came home heartbroken.He’d just been fired 

from his job in the customhouse. 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 save 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 that you 

speak. “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.”