You're familiar with the starfish story--the man on the beach who is throwing starfish back into the ocean. Someone tells him there is no way he can make a difference. There are just too many starfish. Committed to his task, the man picks up yet another starfish and tosses it into the sea.
"Ah," he says with a hopeful stare. "But it made a difference to that one."
I think of Mother Teresa as a starfish thrower. She didn't set out to change the world. She merely started to share the love she had for God with others. Who knows how many starfish she was able to save simply because she tried.
When we desire to do good, perhaps that is where we should begin.
With a single starfish.
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"I am a little pencil
in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a
love letter to the world."
~Mother Teresa
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Go make a difference.
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