Per­haps you’re look­ing at this site and think­ing, “Man, the world has so many prob­lems and needs. Is there really any point in me try­ing to make a tiny, lit­tle dent in it all?“
I was think­ing about this very thing today and a story came to mind.
“A man named, Tom, was walk­ing on the side­walk by his home. A group of chil­dren were play­ing soc­cer on a lawn across the street. Sud­denly, sirens could be heard and a firetruck could be seen rac­ing up the street. The children’s soc­cer ball rolled out onto the road and a young girl named, Kaitlin, ran out to get it right in front of the speed­ing firetruck. Tom lept into action, dove onto the road, grabbed Kaitlin and rolled out of the way of the brak­ing truck as it skid­ded past. Kaitlin was unhurt.”

How­ever, on that day around the world hun­dreds of men, women and chil­dren died in auto­mo­tive related accidents.

Did that make what Tom did for Kaitlin and her fam­ily any less sig­nif­i­cant? Was there any point in him sav­ing that one pre­cious girl when he couldn’t help all the other hun­dreds killed that day around the world?

The needs of the world are great. But the needs of the one child in Ethiopia who des­per­ately needs spon­sor­ship, or the one fam­ily in Bolivia who needs clean drink­ing water, or the one vil­lage in Sri Lanka who needs vac­cines are not so immense and yet help­ing them is no less great.

Let’s not lis­ten to the voice that says we can’t do it all so let’s do noth­ing.
Instead let’s lis­ten to Helen Keller, born blind and deaf, when she said,

“I am only one; but still I am one. I can­not do every­thing, but still I can do some­thing. I will not refuse to do the some­thing I can do.”