While walking along a beach,

      a man saw someone in the distance leaning down,

    picking something up and throwing it into the ocean.

      As he came closer, he saw thousands of seastars

                the tide had thrown  onto the beach.

       Unable to return to the ocean during low tide,

                         the seastars were dying.

      He observed a young man picking up the seastars

      one by one and throwing them back into the water.

            After watching the seemgly futile effort,

                  the observer said, "There must be

                thousands of seastars on this beach.

     It would be impossible for you to get to all of them.

                      There are simply to many.

  You can't possibly save enough to make a difference."

  The young man smiled as he continued to pick up

       another seastar and toss it back into the ocean.

            "It made a difference

          to that one," he replied.

      As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one

   another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. - Peter 4:10

         (posted and dedicated to the memory of my grandparents,

Myra E. Cook & E. "Duke" Stuart, and Opal M. Sawyer & Harry J. Robinson)

  For they indeed made a difference in other's lives and my life especially!