OFFERING PRAISE

To praise is harder than to criticise.

Finding fault with people comes easily to us. Yet if one always only criticises, and find fault with everything, then in the end one is no longer taken seriously.

Praise only has substance when it makes visible the value of life and of creation. In and from this flows the praise which one person offers to another.

So it should be given accurately, using speech and silence together with care.

A word of praise can last a lifetime; a missed chance to praise can inhibit one for just as long.