I read this and thought WOW ..... Relate this to us, and we are making a
difference , one baby at a time :-))))))
One at a Time
A friend of ours was walking down a deserted Mexican
beach
at sunset. As he walked along, he began to see another man
in the
distance. As he drew nearer, he noticed that the local
native
kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out
into
the water. Time and again he kept hurling things out into
the
ocean.
As our friend approached even closer, he noticed that
the
man was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the
beach
and, one at a time, he was throwing them back into the
water.
Our 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'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."
"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 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 yet
another
starfish, and as he threw it back into the sea, he replied,
"Made
a difference to that one!"
By Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
from Condensed Chicken Soup for the Soul
Copyright 1996 by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Patty
Hansen
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Cindy~
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