Hello and welcome to today's episode of My Feet of Clay with Teagan Sears.
That's Me!
I have a quote for you!
Today's quote is....
This was first credited to Dale Carnegie.
Have you ever seen a downtrodden man who feels like he has nothing to be happy about?
How about a child at school who has no friends, or a co-worker that is alone and lonely.
The world is filled with such people.
You have only to look around to see them.
It would be easy to turn away, because there is too much pain, and loss, and emptiness
in the world.
How can you expect to make a difference?
It can be easy to get caught up in our own lives and troubles.
But look around.
Someone always has it worse than you.
Get out of yourself and your own comfort zone.
If you refocus, you may see there is a despairing world full of broken people looking desperately
for solace.
But you don't have to reach them all.
Just focus on those you can.
Perhaps you don't have the education to become a counselor, or connections to change public
policy, or funds to become a philanthropist.
But you can reach into the darkness with words of encouragement.
What does it cost you to share a smile, squeeze a shoulder, speak words that uplift, lend
a listening ear, or even sit silently with someone who is struggling?
Perhaps you've heard the story of the little boy walking the beach at low tide.
The sand was littered with thousands and thousands of starfish stranded by the receding water.
The child proceeded to pick up the spiny creatures and toss them as quickly as he could back
into the waves.
A man approached him and said, "Why are you bothering?
You cannot make a difference to these thousands of dying starfish!"
Looking dubious, the boy scooped up another and chucked it as far has his chubby arm could
manage as he replied, "I made a difference to that one!"
Now it is your turn.
Who has God placed in your reach that can benefit from a simple gesture of kindness?
Once you have broken out of your limited comfort zone, perhaps you would consider to move to
the next step and offering help in a more tangible way.
In any event start simply with a few words of appreciation and encouragement and see
if you don't benefit as much as they.
Lift them up out of the darkness and into the light, just by a few simple words of encouragement.
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