“But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.” – Hebrews 3:13
In 1951, Bette Nesmith was a single parent with a nine-year old son. She worked in a Dallas Bank and she seemed rather average with no particular promise for big things. She was glad to have the secretarial job – $300 a month was very good at the time – but she did have a problem: how to correct the errors she made with her new electric typewriter. Nesmith had been a freelance artist, and artists never correct by erasing, they simply paint over the error. So she concocted a fluid that she could use to paint over her typing errors. Before long all the secretaries in the building were using what she then called “Mistake Out.”
An office supply dealer encouraged her to manufacture the paint, but marketing agencies weren’t impressed. But the secretaries continued to like the product, so Bette’s kitchen became her first manufacturing facility. Orders began to trickle in, and she hired a college student to help her sell the product.
It took a couple of years and a lot of traveling to market what she now called “Liquid Paper”.
When she sold the company in 1979, the tiny white bottles were earning $3.5 million annually and Gillette paid $47.5 million to Bette for her invention.
As Christians, we need to always encourage others to grow in the love of Jesus Christ. Today in prayer, thank the Lord for the encouragement you have received in your life and seek to be an encouragement to others.
“Encouragement is food for the heart, and every heart is a hungry heart.” – Pat Morley
God’s Word: “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:11
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