The Forge

Tonight at 6:30 pm, see the talented Crown Church Youth from Tate perform, featuring Weldon Lindsay, Quez Lee, Kaidyn Gray, and Jayden Curry.

Just how much power in my words has been overwhelming my thoughts. We have words that can change the world. What will we do with power? Speak life? Or speak death? Choose to be a hero and speak life where others speak or repeat death bearing words.

One day Thomas Edison came home and gave a paper to his mother. He told her, “My teacher gave this paper to me and told me to only give it to my mother.”
His mother’s eyes were tearful 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 enough good teachers for training him. Please teach him yourself.
After many, many years, after Edison’s mother died and he was now one of the greatest inventors of the century, one day he was looking through old family things. Suddenly he saw a folded paper in the corner of a drawer in a desk. He took it and opened it up. On the paper was written: Your son is addled [mentally ill]. We won’t let him come to school any more.
Edison cried for hours and then he wrote in his diary: “Thomas Alva Edison was an addled child that, by a hero mother, became the genius of the century.”