Making a difference

One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean. Approaching the boy, he 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 and thousands of starfish? 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 saiid, “I made a difference for that one.” -Loren Eiseley

(Parentheses are mine, the Scriptures are the very heartbeat of our precious Savior Jesus Christ. Lk. 15:7, 10. The safest and most protected place is our Savior’s heart of love. See Jn. 13:23. There truly is no other place of rest. Zeph. 3:17. It is where God is resting in the Son of His love—this is our place of rest.

See Jn. 3:16; 1 Jn. 4:10, 19; Eph. 5:1; 1 Cor. 13:13; Jn. 15:13; 10:34-35; 1 Jn. 4:17-18; 3:16-17-18).