impact – Scattered Journal Pages

why-we-need-to-quit-trying-to-save-the-world

Can we stop trying to change the world?

Listen close, for just a second.

I say: The world doesn’t need fixing, because it’s already been done.

I don’t mean the world’s perfect. I don’t mean the world’s not broken – just look around, steady your eyes on a little slice of the pain and you’ll be convinced in an instant that something’s sorely wrong, sucked nearly dry of hope.

But there is something greater than the brokenness that we see – something higher, bigger, more powerful than the messes we create for ourselves.

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so-you-want-to-make-a-difference

So, you want to do something extraordinary?

Yeah, me too.

Make a difference. Change people’s lives. Bring hope to those seemingly hopeless. Impact, encourage, and inspire the world.

Sometimes, we just have this ache to…do something.

We see the model Christians over in Africa, digging wells and building schools, and those young teens starting nonprofits. We watch as people intervene in crises, take in refugees, adopt a houseful of kids, have this whole change-the-world-plan by age fourteen, and we’re over here in our cozy little homes drinking pumpkin spice lattes and sweeping the kitchen floor and feeling guilty.

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