DENZEL’S DIRECTION
A recent news article about Denzel Washington illustrates the powerful effect that a word of “encouragement” can make. On January 8, 2000, the Associated Press reported that Denzel Washington says he owes his success to a prophecy. When he was a twenty-year-old college dropout, he was in his mother’s beauty shop one day and a woman wrote on a piece of paper, “This boy is going to speak to millions of people.” The fateful meeting came in time to persuade Washington to give college another try-and to discover his acting talent. “Why didn’t I meet her a year ago before I got kicked out of school?” he asked in an interview airing Sunday on CBS’s “60 Minutes.” He still has the prophetic piece of paper handed to him twenty-five years ago. “I keep it with me all the time,” he said. Words spoken in encouragement can have a powerful affect on others’ lives. Words of encouragement are like words of prophecy-they…
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