Comments on: Every Child Deserves a Family – Part 1 http://theforsakenchildren.org/every-child-deserves-a-family-part-1/ Lasting Hope for Ethiopia Sat, 12 May 2012 02:19:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Joe http://theforsakenchildren.org/every-child-deserves-a-family-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Joe Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:53:58 +0000 http://theforsakenchildren.org/?p=670#comment-105 Thank you for that Heather. I hope to do what I can, with God's help, to really impact Ethiopia's children - no matter how few. You're right, the situation is huge and it becomes very overwhelming when I think of myself as the savior. I have to remember (actually we all do) that there's only one Savior and I'm not him! That helps me to stay out of the back seat. Thank you for that Heather. I hope to do what I can, with God’s help, to really impact Ethiopia’s children – no matter how few. You’re right, the situation is huge and it becomes very overwhelming when I think of myself as the savior. I have to remember (actually we all do) that there’s only one Savior and I’m not him! That helps me to stay out of the back seat.

]]> By: Heather McGugan http://theforsakenchildren.org/every-child-deserves-a-family-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Heather McGugan Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:57:26 +0000 http://theforsakenchildren.org/?p=670#comment-104 Wow - that last paragraph really sums it up! How challenging and yet what we need to hear as God obviously calls us to do something - Matthew 25:35-36, 40. I believe too often we take a back seat approach and do nothing out of the feeling that the problem is too big. But we forget how BIG our God is. I like this quote by Robert F. Kennedy: "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills--against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence... Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation... It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. " Wow – that last paragraph really sums it up! How challenging and yet what we need to hear as God obviously calls us to do something – Matthew 25:35-36, 40.

I believe too often we take a back seat approach and do nothing out of the feeling that the problem is too big. But we forget how BIG our God is. I like this quote by Robert F. Kennedy:

“Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills–against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence… Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation…
It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. “

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