In combination with my lesson the first of the month and Melody
Surat's lesson last week, I thought I would share with you the Power of a
Woman's Words. Remember my lesson was on "not criticing or being
judgemental of each other" and during Melody's lesson we discussed how
to control our words and thoughts. I came across this article while
reading a book that Sister Jacobson had lent to me... please read. I
hope we can encourage each other to be this empowering...
Sophia used her words to elevate and motivate her husband. He came home very discouraged and defeated. He had lost his job and dreaded telling his wife the bad news. However, after explaining his plight, he was met with an unexpected response.
“Now,” she said triumphantly as she clapped her hands in delight, “you can write your book!”
“Yes”, replied the man, with sagging confidence. “And what shall we live on while I am writing it?”
To his amazement, she opened a drawer and pulled out a substantial amount of money.
“Where on earth did you get that?” he exclaimed.
“I have always known you were a man of genius,” she told him. “I knew that someday you would write a masterpiece. So every week out of the money you gave me for housekeeping, I saved a little bit. Here is enough to last us for one whole year.”
From her trust, confidence, and encouraging words came one of the greatest novels of American literature. That was the year that Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter…
(Chicken Soup for the Soul, Canfield)
Here are just two examples of how they spoke of each other...
Of
his wife, whom he referred to as his "Dove", Hawthorne wrote that she
"is, in the strictest sense, my sole companion; and I need no
other—there is no vacancy in my mind, any more than in my heart... Thank
God that I suffice for her boundless heart!"[34]
Sophia
greatly admired her husband's work. In one of her journals, she wrote:
"I am always so dazzled and bewildered with the richness, the depth, the
... jewels of beauty in his productions that I am always looking
forward to a second reading where I can ponder and muse and fully take
in the miraculous wealth of thoughts".[35]
I hope we will take the time to share our love and confidence with members of our family and dear friends.
Love, Sister Brock
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