Rosemead Kiwanis Club
"Serving the Community Since 1945"
FAX OF
LIFE
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Rosemead Kiwanis Club "Serving the Community Since 1945" |
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FAX OF LIFE
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The Fax of Life
A weekly inspiration, courtesy of the Kiwanis Club of Scott's Valley
December 10, 2006 Volume 12 Number 11
A friend of
ours was walking down a deserted
Mexican beach at sunset. As he
walked along, he began to see
another man in the distance. As he
grew nearer, he noticed that the
local native kept leaning down,
picking up something and throwing it
out into the water. Time and again
he kept hurling things out into the
ocean.
As our friend
approached even closer, he noticed
that the man was picking up starfish
that had been washed up on the beach
and, one at a time, he was throwing
them back into the water.
Our friend was
puzzled. He approached the man and
said, "Good evening, friend. I was
wondering what you are doing."
"I'm throwing
these starfish back into the ocean.
You see, it's low tide right now and
all of the starfish had been washed
up onto the shore. If I don't throw
them back into the sea, they'll die
up here from lack of oxygen."
"I
understand," my friend replied, "but
there must be thousands of starfish
on this beach. You can't possibly
get to all of them. There are simply
too many. And don't you realize that
this is probably happening on
hundreds of beaches all up and down
this coast. Can't you see that you
can't possibly make a difference?"
The local native smiled, bent down and picked up yet another starfish, and as he threw it back into the sea, he replied, "Made a difference to that one!"
Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time.
The Kiwanis Club of Scott's Valley is a community service club and meets at the Heavenly Café in Scott's Valley on Wednesdays at 7 am. You are welcome to join us anytime.
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