{"id":17168,"date":"2026-03-10T13:53:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/seven-sweet-words-that-changed-her-life\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:03:07","slug":"seven-sweet-words-that-changed-her-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/inspiring-stories\/seven-sweet-words-that-changed-her-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Sweet Words That Changed Her Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up knowing I was different, and I hated it.<\/p>\n<p>I was born with a <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/prayer\/prayers-for-family\/mamas-wish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cleft palate<\/a>, and when I started to go to school, my classmates\u2014who were constantly teasing\u2014made it clear to me how I must look to others: a little girl with a misshapen lip, crooked nose, lopsided teeth, and hollow and somewhat garbled speech. I couldn\u2019t even blow up a balloon without holding my nose, and when I bent to drink from a fountain, the water spilled out of my nose.<\/p>\n<p>When schoolmates asked, \u201cWhat happened to your lip?,\u201d I\u2019d tell them that I\u2019d fallen as a baby and cut it on a piece of glass. Somehow it seemed more acceptable to have suffered an accident than to have been born different. By the age of seven I was convinced that no one outside my own family could ever love me. Or even like me.<\/p>\n<p>And then I entered second grade, and Mrs. Leonard\u2019s class.<\/p>\n<p>I never knew what her first name was\u2014just Mrs. Leonard. She was round and pretty and fragrant, with chubby arms and shining brown hair and warm, dark eyes that smiled even on the rare occasions when her mouth didn\u2019t. Everyone adored her. But no one came to love her more than I did. And for a special reason.<\/p>\n<p>The time came for the annual \u201chearing tests\u201d given at our school. I was barely able to hear anything out of one ear, and was not about to reveal yet another problem that would single me out as different. And so I cheated.<\/p>\n<p>I had learned to watch the other children and raise my hand when they did during group testing. The \u201cwhisper test,\u201d however, required a different kind of deception: Each child would go to the door of the classroom, turn sideways, close one ear with a finger, and the teacher would <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/christian_prayer\/41240\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whisper something<\/a> from her desk, which the child would repeat. Then the same thing was done for the other ear.<\/p>\n<p>I had discovered in kindergarten that nobody checked to see how tightly the untested ear was being covered, so I merely pretended to block mine.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, I was last, but all through the testing I wondered what Mrs. Leonard might say to me. 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