Ac-centuate The Positive!

Be sure you do!

As the popular song goes, it is very powerful to ac-centuate the positive!

The following letter is floating around on the internet which does just that:

“One day, as a small child, Thomas Edison came home from school and gave a paper to his mother. He said to her “Mom, my teacher gave this paper to me and told me only you are to read it. What does it say?”

Her eyes welled with tears as she read the letter out loud to her child…

“Your son is a genius. This school is too small for him and doesn’t have good enough teachers to train him. Please teach him yourself.”

Many years after Edison’s mother had died, he became one of the greatest inventors of the century.

One day he was going through a closet and he found the folded letter that his old teacher wrote his Mother that day. He opened it…

The message written on the letter was “Your son is mentally deficient. We cannot let him attend our school anymore. He is expelled.”

Edison became emotional reading it and then wrote in his diary:

“Thomas A. Edison was a mentally deficient child whose mother turned him into the genius of the Century.”

A positive word of encouragement can help change anyone’s destiny.”

We did look it up on Snopes and Snopes tells us that, whilst there is no evidence of this having actually happened, Thomas Edison was a terrible student and when the school told his mother that he was “addled” (mentally confused, muddled) she pulled him out of school and taught him herself.  And taught him, she did!

We all know the end of this story!

Find the good, fill your thoughts with joy, use love!  It WILL make a difference!