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Thursday, August 1, 2013

The Starfish Story.....

Still waiting to find out when we will be traveling to meet our baby........
Thinking today about the huge need of families willing to adopt an orphan child
There are more than 150 million Orphans in the world,
Soooo many.......we will be adopting one......how can we help the rest??
The truth is that you don't need to adopt ,in order to help an Orphan Child.........you can sponsor a child (Compassion International, World Vision,etc) you can Pray ,Support adoption and  Orphan Care ministry in your church, you can advocate for a "waiting child", be a "prayer warrior" or support  families in process of adoption  with Reece's Rainbow Adoption Ministry......

We can get very comfortable just convincing ourselves with thoughts like "they are tooo many", "whatever I do will not make a difference",etc, etc,....
There is beautiful story that I wanted to post today , this story touched my heart years ago :  



               

One  day a man was walking along a beach and saw a boy picking up something
           and gently throwing it back into the ocean.
       
           Approaching the boy the man asked,"What are you doing?"
                                                                          
The youth replied, "Throwing starfish back into the ocean 
The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don't throw them back, 
they'll die."

"Son," the man said, "Don't you realize there are miles and miles 
of beach with hundreds and hundreds of fish?
           You can't make a difference"
    
          After listening politely, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish
and threw it back into the surf. Then smiling at the man, he said,
           "It made a difference to this one!"