Ripples

Marie Berry wrote:

I’m a firm believer that real, significant change, comes about one person at a time.

We are currently witnessing a transformation, each one of us is creating ripples of positive change that will impact others, and in turn they will impact others, and so on. So never underestimate your ability to contribute to this transformation, every gesture, however small has an impact.

The trick is not to expect to necessarily see that impact as an immediate ‘cause and effect’, it very often doesn’t happen that way. Don’t push to see the results, simply say or do, and move on, too much conflict will only drain your energy, which is counterproductive.
So plant your seeds of truth, and let things be.

Way above what you may have to say, simply by living your life honestly, courageously, lovingly and healthily, you are setting an example for others to follow.

Your inner strength and happiness will radiate and have a positive effect on anyone that comes across you.
Be the change.

Ripples

Could not agree more with this! That’s why I crafted this:

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The Road Less Traveled by Robert Frost

Robert Frost

Robert Frost was born today in 1874. A good way to celebrate is to read his poem “The Road Not Taken” and to ponder what it means to you.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Primary Schoolers and Sex-Education

(My friends are on fire today! First Karen Hadley and now this from Jan Houston-Solari!)

This is a beautifully wise way to illustrate the problem of burdening young children with sex “education”.

This excerpt from the book ‘The Hiding Place’ by Corrie Ten Boom needs to be shared.

“So the line had stuck in my head. “Sex,” I was pretty sure, meant whether you were a boy or girl, and “sin” made Tante Jans very angry, but what the two together meant I could not imagine. And so, seated next to Father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, “Father, what is sex-sin?”

He turned to look at me, as he always did when answering a question, but to my surprise he said nothing. At last he stood up, lifted his traveling case from the rack over our heads, and set it on the floor.

“Will you carry it off the train, Corrie?” he said.

I stood up and tugged at it. It was crammed with the watches and spare parts he had purchased that morning.

“It’s too heavy,” I said.

“Yes,” he said. “And it would be a pretty poor father who would ask his little girl to carry such a load. It’s the same way, Corrie, with knowledge. Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you.”

– from The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

Some are asking our children to carry loads that are way too heavy for them. They should not be forced, as children, to see and feel the world through the lens of adults. Innocence is worth protecting and worth fighting for. We need to do our part as parents and caregivers to carry certain things for them until they are old enough to bear the load.

The Descent from Divine To Defeated and Drugged

Sleeping Girl

My friend Karen Hadley wrote:

I’ve had a realization about how a society can drive its population into drug use.

Over the centuries, Man has naturally been drawn to the Divine. He has sought knowledge of God and gods. If you erode a population’s interest in or sense that they can participate in this search, that population is left with the physical universe and goals related to material success to engage with. So Man seeks piles of money, big houses, trips around the world and sensations of the flesh as signs of success.

If he fails at those endeavors and loses any hope of success in the material realm, what echelon lies below that? Blotting out the pain with drugs and drink.

So how do you drive humans into drug addiction and alcoholism? Remove faith and God from the lives of humans, then feed them vast quantities of false information about relationships and finance; provide them with misleading models of success so they feel defeated before they ever make an effort.

Further, create an atmosphere of insecurity, fear and anxiety.

The susceptible among the population will reach for drugs (medical or illicit) and alcohol to make the pain tolerable. But a certain number of them—far too many—will lose their lives in the effort to blot out that pain.

And thus you have the path America has been on for the last several decades. This erosion from the Divine to the defeated is continuous, relentless and perpetrated in the tiniest, most minimally-offensive and most logical-sounding increments possible.

Many of us work every day to reverse this descent and return Divinity to Mankind as its birthright and true nature. (Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash)