This is Max Locato.

Nathaniel Hawthorne came home heartbroken.

He had 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 had 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 know Proverbs 1821 says death and life are in the power of the tongue.

You have the power to change someone's life simply by the words you speak.

This is Max Locato.