Kind Acts and
Pleasant Words Promote Health
Pleasant
words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Prov. 16:24
Kind, cheerful, encouraging words will
prove more effective than the most healing medicines. These will bring courage
to the heart of the desponding and discouraged, and the happiness and sunshine
brought into the family by kind acts and encouraging words will repay the
effort tenfold. The husband should remember that much of the burden of training
his children rests upon the mother, that she has much to do with molding their
minds. This should call into exercise his tenderest feelings, and with care
should he lighten her burdens. He should encourage her to lean upon his large
affections and direct her mind to heaven, where there is strength and peace and
a final rest for the weary.
His kindness and loving courtesy will be
to her a precious encouragement, and the happiness he imparts will bring joy
and peace to his own heart.
The sweetest type of heaven is a home
where the Spirit of the Lord presides. . . . Anything that would mar the peace
and unity of the family should be firmly repressed, and kindness and love
should be cherished.
Home should be a place where
cheerfulness, courtesy, and love abide; and where these graces dwell, there
will abide happiness and peace.
Those who are fighting the battle of life
at great odds may be refreshed and strengthened and encouraged by little
attentions which cost nothing. Kindly words simply spoken, little attentions
simply bestowed, will sweep away the clouds of temptation which gather over the
horizon of the soul.
Under the influence of meekness,
kindness, and gentleness, an atmosphere is created that will heal and not
destroy.
From My Life Today - Page 152
