no-longer-a-slumdog

it is happening
Gospel. As followers of Christ, we must respond while we can.
Someone once said, “Harvest is a fixed time.” In my village in
India, there are hundreds of farmers. My own brothers are farmers.
When harvest time comes, no one goes on vacation. No one
says, “Let’s go away for a month and enjoy life; then we’ll come
back and do the work.” Why
Because within a few weeks time, the rain will begin to fall.
The season will change, and the entire harvest will be destroyed if
it is not brought in. We must never say, “Later . . . tomorrow . . .
next month . . . two years from now I’ll be part of the harvest.”
The opportunity will be gone.
The need is almost overwhelming. The sheer numbers drive
us to our knees. But don’t be daunted by the size of the task; you
can make a difference in the life of a child.
In some parts of the world, when the tide comes in from the
ocean, it brings with it thousands of starfish. Then the tide recedes
and leaves thousands of them behind on the shore. Many
of these starfish cannot make it back to the safety of the water
before the sun comes up and dries them out.
A man was walking along the shore one day and witnessed
this sight. He stared at all the starfish, saddened that so many
would die.
Then he saw a young boy walking in the other direction.
The lad would stop and pick up a starfish and throw it into the
ocean. He continued to do this, picking up one after the other
and throwing them back into the water.
“Why are you doing that” the man asked the boy. “Don’t
you realize there are miles and miles of shore You’re wasting
your time. You’ll never make a difference.”
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