There's a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call, and answer in extraordinary ways.
—from the film “Mother Teresa”
ONE MORNING AFTER A GREAT STORM a man walked along a beach. For as far as he could see, hundreds, maybe thousands, of starfish had washed up on the sand. Then he noticed a child doing a curious thing. The child bent down, picked up a starfish, walked to the water's edge, and gently tossed it into the ocean. Then the child went back, picked up another starfish, and kept repeating the process. Finally the man walked over to the child and asked what was going on. The child told him that the starfish would die if they didn't get back into the water. “But there are so many starfish!” the man exclaimed. “It won't make any difference what you do.” The child walked into the water with yet another starfish and softly replied, "It sure makes a difference to this one."
