Where You’re Planted
/“I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace. I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
Those who want to change the world never will. Those who want to make a simple difference rarely fail. We have seen the most powerful people in the world try and fail to effect global change. For our own good and protection, God does not give mere humans the power to change the world. But we are given the power to make a difference. We can leave every situation better than we found it. We can invest in a specific person, place, or issue consistently over time. We can bloom where we are planted. Perhaps that’s how God changes the world - all of his children making a difference right where they are. Each of us is a candle burning in this world of darkness, bringing light - you in your small corner and I in mine.