Happy Sunday everyone and welcome to the first day of my 6 part series. My thoughts and prayers are that just one will want to make a difference not because of what is written in this series but because their heart opened up to the idea.
As I write my thoughts are of the many people in this world that feel alone, that feel abandoned or just feel small. We all have the power to change that perception that they feel by the way we talk, walk and share our life.
We must not, in trying to think about how
we can make a big difference,
ignore the small daily differences
we can make which,
over time, add up to
big differences that we
often cannot foresee.
Marian Wright Edelman
So many of us want to change the world in a big way, the way that some in that video, from yesterday, made a difference.
But the true way to make a difference is in the tiny steps. The kind word, the sincere smile, the door held open, the compliment paid with randomness.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
W. Clement Stone
All the difference, big or small is in our attitude towards others. Our empathy, our general concern for the human race. Not dependent on the color of ones skin, or their religious beliefs, or their general beliefs of habit or practice but because they are significant.
“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war.
And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained...
now everywhere is war.”
Haile Selassie
The basic human right to feel significance will always cast a shadow over feeling joy and happiness. So what of this word significance, this feeling that we belong, we are cared about and what we do matters. A basic human need, you bet. A feeling that shapes who we are, today and tomorrow of course.
So to start with making a difference we must start with the core.
The core, knowing that no matter what we are significant.
Not because someone tells us or shows us that it is so.
Not because someone thinks highly of us or gives us that just notice. For what other people think of you or me is really none of our business.
Not gossip or random feelings should ever be allowed to ripple our inner spirit. For gossip and hate run amok, quickly. They attach to our soul and if allowed they will conquer any desire to make progress.
Like a fire left burning it will rage on to the next flammable object and consume it till it shows no semblance of importance. Just charred and useless carbon.
We are the difference that makes the difference.
It starts with you and me and ends only when objection is lay at the feet of progress.
A video that I hope explains this weeks vision of making a difference. I hope you enjoy it, bookmark it and share it with another.
Yes, one can make a difference, with one action, one random thought that with focus and care can enlighten another soul.
Please stay hungry and stay foolish.
Fill your soul and spirit with gratitude and the knowledge that yes you too can make a difference.
Not just in the world but in ourselves. The world will change soon enough once we do.
May your smiles abound.
May your joy lift another spirit.
May your heart be warmed because it always was.
Smiles sent your way this day and always! Happy Sunday everyone
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