BASED ON FAITH
‘Right’ word
from a friend

DO YOU REMEMBER
When someone said exactly
the right thing to you? Of
course you did not know at
the time that it was exactly
the right word for you, but
later you could twig to how
important it was.

When |! was a lowly new-
boy at Upper Canada College
one of the Masters said to
me, ‘‘I think you can do it,
don’t you?’’ 1 was an average
sort of hero-worshipper at
the time and if HE thought
so, naturally | began to think
so too. What he said was the
right word for me.

A successful psychothera-
pist told me about the time (I
think she said she was 17)
when she was trying to decide
on the direction of what she
called her ‘‘life-work’’. In
typical 17-year-old fashion,
she was asking advice of
anyone and everyone. She
remembers feeling differently
about Tony telling her she
should do it (whatever it was)
and Marion giving her the
very same advice. She heard a
few ‘‘do-its’’ and a few
‘‘don’t do its’’ and was baffl-
ed by noticing that some
‘‘do-its’’ pleased her and
some did not while some
‘don’t do its’’ pleased her

the growing
edge

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and some didn’t. She asked
still another person, ‘‘Should
I do it or shouldn’t 1?’’ And
THIS person said to her,
‘“‘Why not?’’ She knew right
away, She says, that she had
just heard ‘’the right word’’.

A young fellow in Yellow-
grass, Saskatchewan once
hung around after a youth
conference he was attending,

to talk to a counsellor who
had been one of the guest
leaders at the conference. He
told the counsellor that he
had made a sort of tentative
decision about what he
wanted to ‘‘be’’ and then ad-
ded, ‘‘But 1 think I’ve made
the wrong choice. I don’t feel
I’m up to it. I think I’d pro-
bably not do very well at it.’’
The counsellor smiled at him
and said, in a good clear
voice, ‘‘Bull!’’ and turned
and walked away. The kid,
who is now a bit past middle-
age and good at the thing he
is doing, reports, with the ad-
vantage of hind-sight, ‘‘He
said exactly the right thing.’”’

A young school teacher
went to her principal and
said, ‘‘] need some education
about an ethical knot I’m try-
ing to untie.’’ She told him
what she was wrestling with
and he replied, ‘*You say you
need some education to help
you in this decision you are
wrestling with. Well, educa-
tion is really the fine art of
discovering what you already
know. Try it!”’

All those ‘‘right words”’
seem to have been based on a
faith in the person they were
addressed to. That’s what
made them ‘‘right’’

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