Bryce inspired me! The challenges he lived with placed him in the hospital and I wanted to brighten his day. I couldn't be there because of distance but thought I could at least send a card… I got it in my head that I wanted to make one on the computer. I bought my first computer 4 years prior when my father was diagnosed with cancer. I bought the suite with it and in there, I knew I had some kind of something to make pictures, cards etc. Now this was going to be a new challenge, blind girl making cards but I love challenges and I especially love doing things that people think I cannot do! So I opened up the program, thankful for accessibility on the computer, and began to create. The first cards were amateurish and well, simple. But Bryce was gracious and told me the cards were beautiful, that they lifted his day and that he really appreciated them. 

There is much to be said for calling the gems out in people. The Book that I read says Life and death are in the power of the tongue... The words we speak have power, they are more powerful than many people realize. The  words we say can put a smile on someone's face or bring tears to another one's eyes. We can  encourage one another with the words we speak or we can crush the hopes and dreams of the  ones we love by not watching what we say

What Bryce  did for me with his words changed my life. It literally brought me into a new adventure, a new season.  It would take me places I'd never been before and I would see myself doing things I had never done. That's the power of the spoken word. 

Hmmmmm…what have I  said to others today?  Was I positive?  Or negative?  Did I respond to another person’s negative comment with more negativity?  Or did I try to improve the situation with something positive?  If I didn’t have something positive or helpful to say, did I speak anyway?  Or did I keep my thoughts to myself?  When I ‘corrected’ my chidren, was I irritated and negative?  Or did I try to speak in an instructive, helpful way for the purpose of bringing about good?