The Starfish

The ongoing clearing out and consideration of items for moving continues.  I was clearing some things out of a drawer of paperwork and I found an information pack from a charity called Starfish Asia (giving hope to the children of Pakistan being their tagline.) and on the back of their pack, I saw this story:

The starfish

I was walking on the beach one day and I saw a young man picking up starfish from the sand and flinging them back into the sea.

I asked why he did it.

"If I don't, they will die in the midday sun," he said.

"But there are thousands of starfish," I replied.

"What difference does it make to save a few?"

He looked down at the starfish in his hand and flung it to safety in the waves.

"It makes a big difference to this one!" he said.

This is our philosophy.

We know we can't rescue everyone.

But we surely must rescue some

Together we can rescue many.

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I love the message of that.  It is SO easy in life not to bother to do something little, or dare to do something big because it seems like it doesn't matter, it doesn't make a difference but it does.  One little action, one spoken word, one shared moment, one hand reaching out, one little gesture or time and it can make all the difference to one person, one time, one situation. Helping ONE child to get a good education could affect their whole life and that person might make a difference for any.

It's like Jesus talked about many drops making an ocean.  We have the potential on our own to be a drop in the vast ocean and may feel insignificant but it's comforting to know that together, we can be an ocean. And as we know, the ocean can be a tsunami and have immense power-that can be devastating power but it can also be good!

xxx