FReeper Canteen ~ Sunday Chapel ~ HOW BIG IS ONE? ~ 16 October 2016

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

 

 

HOW BIG IS ONE?

As a man walked a desolate beach one cold, gray morning he began to see another figure, far in the distance. Slowly the two approached each other, and he could make out a local native who kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the water. Time and again he hurled things into the ocean.

As the distance between them continued to narrow, the man could see that the native was picking up starfish that had been washed upon the beach and, one at a time, was throwing them back into the water.

Puzzled, the man approached the native and asked what he was doing. "I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it's low tide right now and all of these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don't throw them back into the sea, they'll die up here from lack of oxygen."

"But there must be thousands of starfish on this beach," the man replied. "You can't possibly get to all of them. There are just too many. And this same thing is probably happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down this coast. Can't you see that you can't possibly make a difference?"

The local native smiled, bent down and picked up another starfish, and as he threw it back into the sea he replied, "Made a difference to that one!"

Each of us is but one person: limited, burdened with our own cares and responsibilities. We may feel there is so much to be done, and we have so little to give. We're usually short of everything, especially time and money. When we leave this shore, there will still be millions of starfish stranded on the beach. Maybe we can't change the whole world, but there isn't one of us who can't help change one person's whole world. One at a time. We can make a difference.

One at a time. We can make a difference.

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Glad you and Baby got to relax with friends, and that the weather was nice. Now...let it rain!!

Got all the shopping done. But the afternoon and evening were dealing with Mom and hallucinations. And just now got a new one.....”there have even been baptisms by the guys in white (up to now they have been in the trees cutting them down) in our back yard (a creek runs through it)”. *sigh*

But I did cut her hair (my sis can even I up when next she comes) and got it washed. And I think I’ve talked her into a soaking bath later.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, onedoug, and Shavua Tov to you and yours.

Have a great week.

[Kathy in Alaska]

A Blessed Lord's Day to you and your family.

The 23rd Psalm

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Troops and Vets, for your service to our country.

Josh Groban ~ You Raise Me Up

Thanks, unique, for the logo.

[Soaring Feather]

Yup, I go out in the day...however it gets dark now at 7:00pm. Blah and Rats.

HUGS