'Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you;bind them around your neck,write them on the tablet of your heart so you will find favour and good repute in the sight of God and of people.'
There was a boy standing on the beach amongst hundreds of star fish that were being washed up by the tide. One by one he was throwing them back into the sea. An old man came past and said to the boy. 'You will never make a difference, there are too many.' The boy kept throwing them back,one by one and again the old man said. 'you will never do it, you will never make a difference.'
The boy picked up a star fish and threw it into the sea and looking straight at the old man said; 'See, I did make a difference to that one.
Think of your day, of your week. Who has God placed before you and remember to focus on the one before you in the moment.
Mother Teresa said:
So I begin....I begin.
I picked up one person. Maybe if I hadn't picked up that one person I wouldn't have picked up 42,000.
The whole work is only a drop in the ocean but if I don't put one drop in the ocean will be one drop less.
Grace and peace from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Anne,servant of the Lord.