What you do, matters. Doing something, and especially the right thing, is vital.
The simple act of taking out the trash makes a difference in a home’s atmosphere. It’s the difference between setting a course to cleanliness or having heaping piles of garbage everywhere.
So what you do, matters. But also, what you don’t do matters just as much.
What are we doing as a church, community, voters, Americans, and members of the human race? Important things? Yes. Are we hurried about by important, yet equally unimportant, tasks? Sure. Are we working, paying the bills, waving hello to our neighbors, and trying to keep our world afloat? Yeah.
But what are we not doing? I can’t compile a list of those things. Only you know.
But as I ponder things in my life and look around at the state of humanity, one thought works its way up through the myriad of ideas in my brain.
What can we do better? What can we accomplish, big or small, that would impact our world most effectively?
Maybe we should do it. It’s probably something simple. But it’s probably something that will change everything.
Every day, I call people I know will be nasty and rude, but I try to plaster a smile across my face (even if it’s as fake as the average teenager’s spray tans). And it makes a difference in how I talk to them.
If I really want the person to like me, I ask how their day is going and try to compliment them in some way. And when I call them again, they are more likely to give me what I desire.
Whatever you want to call that is up to you, but I call it a success.
It’s the difference between getting what I need or never getting anything. To find a solution, the answer, to a problem, yet never apply it is ludicrous.
So what we do matters, but what we don’t do does too. Either way, we’re charting a course to a definite destination.
Because not doing something is doing something.
to the future,
– Caleb
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