Make our world a better place

The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. ~Leo Rosten

We all genuinely want to make a difference in the world we live, but we are all so caught up, focussed on our needs that we always pass the buck. We wait and look around for a prophet or a God to appear and do our bit hoping the world will take care of itself. We forget we are the world.

I used to think that i m pretty insignificant compared to the world, but i have come to realize that i have a circle i influence and that this circle extends far and wide and touches everyone else. I am one of the links in the big chain.

I read a very nice write-up by Joel Osteen. To summarize it in a quote:
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabian Proverb

The main points i have highlighted in my other blog On the wings of prayer . If you want to read the complete article click here

As for me, i like to think :

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. ~Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojarhiu)