Little is Much

     It can seem overwhelming....too big to even think about, much less attempt to change...

        147 million orphans, lacking even basic food and shelter
           young girls being trafficked into the sex trade...
              little boys sold into slavery to work on cocoa farms for our chocolate...
                women abandoned and abused by the men who should protect them,...
                    families trying to survive on less than $2.00 a day...
                        mothers dying in childbirth for lack of maternity care...
                             30,000 children dying today from preventable diseases

outside of our safe, comfortable American Dream lives are hurting faces, crying voices, hopeless hearts. It isn't that we don't care....it isn't that we lack compassion....it isn't that we are too busy or too selfish to act.  It's more of a paralysis of not knowing what to do...of feeling helpless to make a difference...confused as to how one person can change anything so huge.  But the good news is that one person matters! 
            One person can make a difference!
                  One person who cares enough
                                              to take just one step
                                                                 can impact someone else's world!

      Catherine Booth, the cofounder with her husband of the Salvation Army, is said to have told her children every night when she tucked them in bed,
                              "You were born to change the world." 

                               And so were we, each and every one of us.
 
God has put us here at this time and place to impact a hurting world and He takes our small, puny efforts and makes them count!  A line from an old hymn goes,
                                          "Little is much when God is in it." 

What little will you do to allow God to make much of?  Will you join an anti-trafficking organization?  Will you sponsor a child?  Will you buy Fair Trade products so people are not exploited to produce the goods you use?  Will you become an advocate for children in poverty? Will you speak up for the rights of the oppressed?  
 Not sure where to begin?  
Check out the links to the right on my blog, as well as these:
http://www.theexodusroad.com   Fighting sex trafficking
http://www.freedomcommons.ijm.org    Fighting all human trafficking/slavery
http://www.shoptostopslavery.com     Ethical shopping

Please comment if this has impacted your thinking, or better yet, if you are taking a new step to change the world for one.  Let me know what "little" you are giving for God to make much.