ne
morning an old man was walking along the beach and discovered
that, in the distance, he could see what looked like
a person dancing along the shore. Curious, the old man
walked in the direction of the dancing silhouette. As
he got closer, he noticed that the image that so intrigued
him was not another person dancing, but a young man
carefully, one by one, picking up starfish and throwing
them back into the ocean just beyond the breakers.
The old man walked up
to the younger man and said, "How long have you
been throwing these starfish back into the ocean?"
The young man replied, "I come out here and do
this every morning. If I did not, the sun would dry
out these starfish, and they would die." "Young
man," the old man said, "there are thousands
of starfish all along this beach, and the beach runs
for miles.
You cannot possibly
save them all. You will never make a difference."
With that, the young man smiled slightly, grabbed a
starfish in his hands, and threw it far beyond the waves.
"It makes a difference to that one," he said.
MCCFP Leadership Retreat will be held July, 2008 at Lake Tiak O'Khata Resort.
