The Ripple Effect....

You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by a few great things. If you want your life to count, if you want the ripple effect of the pebbles you drop to become waves that reach the ends of the earth and roll on for centuries and into eternity, you don't have to have a high IQ or EQ; you don't have to have good looks or riches; you don't have to come from a fine family or a fine school. You have to know a few great, majestic, unchanging, obvious, simple, glorious things, and be set on fire by them.

John Piper

As a child, I would often sit with my feet dangling from a bridge in my grandfathers front yard.  I was  mesmerized by the water, the way it flowed from there to here and then to somewhere I never knew where.  I'd watch tiny bugs and crawl dads move around leaves that had fallen of varying shades.  Occasionally a small tadpole would come into sight and then disappear as quickly as it appeared.

I'd drop tiny pebbles into the flowing stream and watch

as the concentric circles would ebb out and around and continue on out to somewhere far away

and

we

small humans in a large world

sit here

feet dangling and a swinging

and

the mystery of life

moves the tide forward

sometimes over us, around us,

even under us.

I wonder how our ebb looks,

how  we create tiny rippling waves that move from here to there and to somewhere unknown

I wonder

as I sit here.

Do some of us look stagnant in our pond,

floating on the waves of others,

hanging and offering nothing

and

I'd suspect that many others,

have all kinds of ripples heading out,

rolling out,

love waves,

ripple tides,

that

move from their starting point

and

somehow,

someway,

one tiny ripple at a time,

little random acts of kindness,

smiles

and touches

and care

all shared and given

unconditionally,

creating life ripples,

and

the world

changes

one tiny little ripple at at time.

We all have the power

to be a change agent,

to

move love forward,

spread rings of hope,

offer positive energy for others to grab hold of

and

be ebbed gently

into another place.

so,

how did you ripple the world today,

did you share a smile,

offer a helping hand,

touch another,

did you tiny ripple

change the world?

if not

why not.

go on

create a little wave

a ripple of love

come on

change the world

with

your ripple effect...

I triple dog dare you!

if you'll try

so will I!

Happy Monday