It makes a difference for that one.

I just received what I take as a high compliment. One of the men who has been around the mission for a long time now and works some in the emergency shelter told me I had to read the meditation for Monday, October 3, from the TODAY daily devotional.

 

The meditation contained the story about the boy throwing starfish back into the sea.

"What are you doing? the man asked as he walked up to the boy. "I'm saving the starfish," the boy said. The man looked along the shore and replied, "Don't you realize there are miles and miles of beach, and starfish along every mile? You can't possibly make a difference!" The boy picked up another starfish and flung it into the ocean. "It makes a difference for that one," he said.

I read it just before heading for home tonight. I told him I knew that story, and I asked him why he wanted me to read the meditation. "When I read it," he said, "I thought of you."