40 Day Water Walk

Day 7 -
"1 Child dies every 15 seconds due to water related diseases."
This is an amazing fact, but one of those many will read and say "wow, that's horrible" and then continue on with their own lives. The world isn't changed by a horriffic fact, nor is it changed by a poorly written blog (for example, mine). The world is changed when a single person decides to take action, no matter how great or small. I'm reminded on a story about a man walking along the beach after a great lightning storm the night before. As he's walking he stops to notice thousands and thousands of starfish washed up on the shore. He's so astonished by their number that he needs to sit down. As he continues to watch the dying washed up starfish, he notices a jogger on the beach. The jogger takes a few steps, bends over, picks up a starfish, and throws it back in the ocean. He then proceeds to take a few more steps, bends over, and again throws another starfish back in the ocean. The jogger continues this process a few more times before he is within shouting distance to the man sitting down. The sitting man yells out to the jogger, pointing to the entire beach, "Do you see how many starfish have washed up on the sand. There are thousands upon thousands. You are just one man. You can't possibly think that you can make a difference." The jogger looks at the man, bends over, picks up a starfish and throws it back in the ocean. And he tells the man, "I made a difference to that one". He bends over again, picks up another starfish, throws it in the ocean and says, "I made a difference to that one too."
I may not be able to change the world, but if I can change the world for one person, then I'll be happy to do that. Each of us are capable of doing this, the question is do we want to. I would like to encourage all of us, including me, to remember the story of the starfish. As it was said in Mulan, even one grain of rice can tip the scale... Or was it be a man.
I am not an important guy, by the world's standards. I'm not a powerful guy, by the world's standards. I'm just an average guy, and I'm short, so I'm actually a below average guy in some ways. But I am a man who loves and serves an ALL POWERFUL GOD. And with Him behind me, who can be against me.