Wendy L. Watson

When we recognize and lay hold on the good things in our family, we actually increase the good; because in order to offer sincere commendations, honest compliments, and specific praise, we really have to study a subject.  When we care enough to look closely, to get up close and notice, we will see our family members in a new light and be able to commend them on their goodness, their competence, their courage, their tenacity, perhaps even their patience with us.  That means we need to be with them in a very different way, and that different way of being together will invite more light - and our ability to lay hold upon even more good things will increase.

Wendy L. Watson, "'Searching Diligently in the Light of Christ'," Every Good Thing, 1997 BYU Women's Conference, 49