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One Person Can Make a
Difference
I know that
we can make a difference where ever we go.
I also know that we have to start with our own heart and mind. When you change
you, you become the light that illuminates a path for others to follow.
Last year,
while lecturing in Oregon, I heard about a nurse who was disillusioned and a
bit down. She decided to take time off from her nursing job. A friend told her
about a beautiful stretch of land that was in need of a caretaker.
I don’t know
if I would have been able to do it, but this brave woman stayed in the cabin in
the woods and while she did she worked on her own self.
During the
time, she noticed the serenity and beauty of the place and thought that it
should be a retreat for people recovering from cancer.
Soon after
that the property was on the market for sale, but the woman who had been a
nurse most of her life could not afford the hundreds of acres.
She began to
meditate and imagine the place as it could be used. She saw patients there
recovering and would visualize them walking about the place and enjoying their
own existence.
Someone
she’d shared her dream with told her that she should stop dreaming, but she
didn’t.
Instead, the
woman went to the board members of the company that had purchased the land and told
them that they should use it as a retreat for cancer patients.
Somehow, someway, something in the
board was awakened and they decided that this is what should be done and the place is a now a
retreat. The woman is the director.
This one woman with the intention,
heart and vision made it happen.
Today, I’m
asking you this:
What can you bring
about?
Be you, be wonderful,
be your intention.
Bertice Berry, PhD.
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