This is 5 Minute Friday!

Once upon a time there was an old man who used to go to the ocean to do his riding.

Now this man had a habit of walking on the beach every single morning before he began

his work.

In early one morning he was walking along the shore after a big storm had passed and

found the vast beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see, stretching

in both directions.

Now often to the distance the old man noticed a small boy approaching.

As the boy walked he paused every so often and as he grew closer, the man could see that

he was occasionally bending down to pick up an object and throw it into the sea.

Now the boy came closer still and the man called out,

and when the sun gets high they will die unless I throw them back into the water.

And the old man replied, but there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach.

I'm afraid you won't really be able to make that much of a difference.

Now the boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into

the ocean.

Then he turned to the old man, smiled and said, but I made a difference to that one.

I love this story.

This is a rendition from the star, thrower by Lauren Easley.

And I love this message.

It's so simple and so effective yet sometimes we forget how powerful of a difference we

can make on one person at a time.

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