Hi everyone! We haven’t posted in a while, between getting settled, a crazy busy time
& no internet it’s been a challenge to say the leastJ Everyone is doing great! Carrie & Abbi have been working in the
burn clinic, Braxton has been working the garden and helping with projects, the
boys have been playing and I’ve been doing a little of just about everything. Carrie will be posting soon with lots of
pictures and I’m sure a few stories but I just felt the need to share a
something that ran through my mind the other day. We were at the Saturday school for children,
playing with them, showing them love and feeding them when the below story came
to mind. I was thinking about a question I've been asked numerous times lately “why would you go there? People have tried
before…It will always be the same there…What difference can you possibly make?”
The Starfish
Thrower
While walking along a beach, an elderly gentleman saw
someone in the distance leaning down, picking something up and throwing it into
the ocean. As he got closer, he noticed
that the figure was that of a young man, picking up starfish one by one and
tossing each one gently back into the water.
He came closer still and called out, “Good morning! May I ask what it is
that you are doing?” The young man
paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean.” The old man smiled, and said, “I must ask,
then, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?” To this, the young man replied, “The sun is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t
throw them in, they’ll die.” Upon
hearing this, the elderly observer commented, “But, young man, do you not realize
that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every
mile? You can’t possibly make a difference!”
The young man listened politely. Then he bent down, picked up another
starfish, threw it back into the ocean past the breaking waves and
said, “It made a difference for that one.”
I can tell you something that I know in my heart... it makes a
difference to each one we help, just ask this little one. J
