On the way to church yesterday my wife and I had a conversation about what's going on in the world. It would seem that everywhere we look there is trouble. War, disease, man-made and natural disasters all seem to dominate the news media. My wife and I like to think and live as positively as possible, but sometimes that can become difficult when it seems the rest of the world is always in a negative place.
Our conversation began to focus on what we could do about the things which are in the world. At first we thought the problems to be so big that there wasn't possibly anything we could do. However, as we continued to talk I came to the realization that if we try to fix the problems of the world alone, they'll never get fixed.
There is a tendency to look at the things which are happening in the news and simply shake our heads and complain. Sometimes we offer our words of discontent and rarely act on them, choosing instead to believe our actions won't matter.
Sometimes.
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As my wife and I came to agree on yesterday, if everyone does a little, greatness will be achieved.
The actions you take affect the actions of those around you, which in turn will affect the actions of those around them. A ripple effect of good actions has to begin somewhere, and as the song says, let it begin with you.
As today's Psalm remind us, we can find justice when we surround ourselves with goodness. When we begin to ensure the right things are done for the right reasons, and make living in such a way that can only make others want to live the same way, righteousness and justice is not far behind.
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