one solitary life

"Small world, isn't it?" we say when we realize that someone we know knows someone we also know. Is it a coincidence or "destiny?" I think it happens too frequently to be just  a coincidence. I do believe that we are all together in this game of life, so we need to look after each other, we need to be the rock upon which their foundations are built. Look around you....see how the world seems unstable? Is it because the lure of fame, fortune and greed have pretty much taken over? Celebrities think of nothing  but that next plastic surgery, expensive clothes and cars. Never mind that their shallow lifestyle could be used  for good, to give to someone who has so much less. Wars are started over greed for power and wealth as well as control over weaker subjects. Famine has the few hoarding their supplies from the many who need it. And on it goes.

I have spoken before of leaving that ripple that makes a difference. I spoke with a gal at my last book signing, who works with autistic children. She cried as she related stories of how she feels she makes a difference with children that otherwise would be written off. I looked into her eyes, felt her sincerity and blessed her for being that special person in the lives of others.We sometimes may never know of the good we do...and that is OK too. When sometimes all seems lost, tell yourself that you are needed somewhere, some HOW!!! You may never know, you'll come across someone who can say, "I know YOU!!!"

I read a poem today that I want to share with you: "One Solitary Life," by James A. Francis


He was born in an obscure village the child of a peasant woman.

He grew up in still another village
where He worked in a carpenter shop
until He was thirty, and then for three years
He was an itinerant preacher.

He never wrote a book.
He never held an office.
He never had a family.
He never owned a house.
He never went to college.
He never visited a big city.

He never traveled
two hundred miles
from the place
where He was born.

He did none of the things
one usually associates with greatness.
He had no credentials but Himself.

He was only thirty-three when
the tide of public opinion turned against Him.
His friends ran away.
He was turned over to His enemies
and went through the mockery of a trial.

He was nailed to a cross between two thieves.

While He was dying
His executioners gambled for His clothing,
the only property He had on earth.

When He was dead
He was laid in a borrowed grave
through the pity of a friend.

Twenty centuries have come and gone,
and today Jesus is the central figure
of the human race,
the leader of mankind's progress.

All the armies that have ever marched
All the navies that have ever sailed
All the parliaments that have ever sat
All the kings that have ever reigned
put together

Have not affected the life
of mankind on this earth
as much as that
one solitary life.

We are all called to be Jesus in today's world. So...what's stopping YOU from making that ripple in the water?