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You Can Save the World Today

These are difficult days for would-be world-savers.

When you scan the morning horizon, the list of things to be burdened by seems to grow longer by the second, stretching far beyond what your tired eyes can see. At any given moment, it is almost more than you feel capable of enduring—and you would be right.

On days like these you’re quite certain that everything is falling apart, and faced with such a dire conclusion, you may be tempted to believe that you can’t save the world—but you would be wrong.

No, you may not be able to place the planet itself upon your shoulders or spin it in reverse to undo all that has happened, but you this doesn’t mean you aren’t incredibly powerful in altering this moment. It doesn’t mean that you are not heroically inclined. There is in fact, a world that you are fully capable of saving and perfectly positioned to do so in these very seconds.

It isn’t found off in the distance or in trending news or in your social media feed—no it’s far closer and much less dramatic than all that. It is the world that your life brushes up against; in the close and the small of your everyday and the seeming inconsequence of the routine:

It is in the place you call home; in the conversations around the dinner table and the quiet intimate moments with your children.

It is the friendships you’ve carefully cultivated over time; the ones that transcend religion or politics or any manufactured barrier.

It is in the streets where you spend your days, in the churches and shops and the neighborhoods you pass time in and pass by.

It is in the lives of people whose names you know, whose stories you’ve participated in, whose journeys you’ve intersected with.

It is in your family, your community, your church, your circle of friends.

This is where you have plot-twisting, planet-shifting power. It is where your voice carries the loudest, where your activism is the most transformative, where your influence does its greatest work.

And that’s the beauty of it all, true believer. You are already prepared. You are already experienced. You are already present. You don’t need further information, you don’t have to wait for permission, and you don’t have any excuses either.

And because of that, rather than always having your gaze fixed on the horizon and being overwhelmed by all that seems so wrong in the big world stretched out for miles ahead of you, turn your head down a bit and see what’s in front of you. Look at the people there, the ones you live with and work with and rub shoulders with—and see the ways you can be what that world needs. Chances are, there are more than you can count. And the things that you do there will travel in ways you could never imagine; carried by those you encourage and influence and lift.

No, you can’t save the world, friend and the good news is that you don’t need to. You simply need to save the small portion of it you happen to be standing on at any given moment. And this is exactly the day and the story you were made for. 

So go into your living room and your neighborhood and into your Metropolis—and be the hero you’ve been waiting for.

 

 

 

 

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