MAKING A DIFFERENCEA friend was walking down a deserted tropical beach at sunset. As he walked along, he began to see another man in the distance. As he grew nearer, he noticed that the local native kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the water. Time and time again, he kept hurling things out into the ocean. As my friend approached even closer, he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had washed up on the beach. And, one at a time, he was throwing them back into the water.
My friend was puzzled.
He approached the man and said.
"Good evening, friend. I was wondering what you are doing." "I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it is low tide right now and all of these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If, I do not throw them back into the sea, they will all die up here on the sand from lack of oxygen." "I understand," my friend replied,
"but there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can't possibly get to all of them. There are simply too many. And, don't you realize this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches everywhere, and up and down on this coast. Can't you see that you can not possibly make a difference?" The local native smiled
, bent down and picked up yet, another starfish. And, as he threw it back into the sea, he replied,
"Made a difference to that one!"
One can make a difference, just ask. "Jesus".
Love You - jER