Change The World!

     I was watching a movie in which a little boy told his father, “I want to change the world.” As I pondered this, I came to the conclusion that our every word, action and decision affects the future…our own as well as that of others.

     For example, when I go to the grocery store, I may choose to extend a kind word to the cashier, who has had a particularly hard day. Kind words may encourage her, and her overall attitude may change. She may go home a little less agitated than she would have been. She might not yell at her son, who has been bullied at school, made a bad grade on his report card and is contemplating suicide. Instead, she decides to “pass it on”, extending to him the same words that encouraged her. He forgets his own bad day, and decides that life is not so bad after all…She doesn't know it, but her son will grow up to find a cure for cancer.
    
     What if I had criticized the cashier for being too slow? What if I had chosen not to say a word, but to hastily go my own way, not even saying “Thank you”? What if she had gone home and yelled at her son for making a bad grade? What if…?

     Realize that your life is important and purposed by God. Realize that you are loved with the everlasting love of God, and that your life is an extension of His Love. It is through you that the lives of others may be forever changed... 

Be Blessed In Jesus’ Name,

Angie