ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER

 Therefore encourage one another and build each other 
 up, just as in fact you are doing.

(1 Thessalonians 5:11, NIV).

 SOFTLY AND TENDERLY - MIDI

 When Sir Walter Scott was a boy, he was considered 
 not too bright and was made to sit in the shameful 
 dunce's corner. When he was about twelve or thirteen, 
 he happened to be in a a house where some famous 
 literary guests were being entertained. Robert Burns 
 the Scottish poet, was standing and admiring a picture 
 under which was written the couplet of a stanza. He 
 inquired concerning the author. Nobody seemed to 
 know.

 Timidly a boy came to his side, named the author, and 
 quoted the rest of the poem. Burns was both surprised 
 and delighted. Laying his hand on the boy's head, he 
 exclaimed, "Ah, bairnie, ye will be a great man in 
 Scotland some day."

 From that day Walter Scott was a changed lad. One 
 word of encouragement set him on the road to greatness.**

 Suggested prayer: "Dear God, please help me to be
 an encourager and help affirm many a fellow-struggler
 and inspire them to become all that you envisioned 
 them to be. And when I'm feeling blue and discouraged, 
 please send an encourage to me .... Gratefully in Jesus' 
 name. Amen."
 ~~Dick Innes~~>