Sharpness

New incite today. Remember the scripture that mentions correcting ...i.e. 'reproving betimes with sharpness.' Well, our high councilor's wife (AKA former presidents of the SA temple...Ginger Beckstead) was talking about patience in disciplining children. She said patience is not ignoring what they do wrong, it is  disciplining (teaching, correcting, reproving with sharpness and kindness) and having the 'patience' to discipline again and again until they get it right. She also compared it to our patience in suffering or waiting for blessings because we wait for the timing to be right. Anyway, when she was talking about reproving with sharpness, she said that sharpness does not refer to loudness of voice or shrill tones. She said sharp is focus. She did a cutting motion with her hand and then took both hands to bring them to a point to show how a sharp blade is focused on a narrow point. When we reprove with sharpness, we are very specific, concise, focused, and to the point. It makes all the sense in the world to me.