Inspiration:
I can’t change others, but I can change how I relate to them.
Changed Lives
As a minister I have been told that something I said or did changed someone’s life. Of course I live for this! However, what people say in this context is often mysterious and surprising. People quote lines to me that I don’t remember speaking, and then share what they have gone on to make or do because of my words.
I have certainly made some pretty major decisions of my own inspired by a scrap of poetry or the random words of a hitch-hiker. I am a highly intuitive person and, for better or worse, navigate my life in ways that completely baffle more rational souls. But, as mysterious as the ways our lives touch and affect each other might be, I want to use my precious days consciously creating more life and being in contact with others who are doing the same. I want more love, more vitality, more health for me and for the world—those I affect directly through the ripples I send out, and those inhabiting some section of the interdependent web that I’ll never even know about.
by Meg Riley, Senior Minister, Church Of The Larger Fellowship TO READ MORE