In Langston Hughes an aspiring writer working as a busboy at a hotel in Washington D C discovered that a poet he admired Vachel Lindsey was staying as a guest at the hotel Hughes shyly slipped Lindsey some of his own poetry which Lindsey later praised enthusiastically at a public reading Lindsey rsquo s encouragement resulted in Hughes receiving a university scholarship furthering him on his way to his own successful writing career nbsp A little encouragement can go a long way especially when God is in it Scripture tells of an incident when David was on the run from [... more]