Becoming the Difference

Walking with Marley after the rain.

“…every relationship we participate in is a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.”

Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith

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I am one of those people who returns worms to the soil after the rain.  I see them on my walks with my dog Marley—baking in the sun, no chance back to the soil without a helping hand. It took me a few years of walking by them to realize that I could be that hand; that no matter how silly I told myself it looked to passing cars and to neighbors, with just a little courage, I could make a difference.

I listened to that idea one morning, moving a wriggly worm from a scorching sidewalk to a cooler, moist soil just inches away.  Wow, I saved a life today.

I felt wonderful and looked forward to saving more until my thoughts tied me in knots. Who did I think I was? If God is eternal; and, therefore, life is eternal, what life is there to save?   Maybe you’re actually disrupting God’s plan.

But, God works through us, as us; I could never disrupt God, the only Power there is.  I eventually settled my mind on this:  I move a worm three inches and the world is changed in magnificent, infinite ways beyond my imagination.

And, then one day, it hit me.  Oh,…the worms had changed ME. 

I had become one of those people who returns worms to the soil after the rain. I was different. I had become the difference.

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Affirm Today

I am receptive to the inflow of intuition.  I trust and move and have my being in God and my world changes as I am changed in magnificent and infinite ways beyond my imagination.