Changing Each Other’s Life

Inspiration: 

Miracles

Why, who makes much of a miracle?
As to me I know of nothing else but miracles….

To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle,
Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with
the same,
Every foot of the interior swarms with the same.

To me the sea is a continual miracle,
The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—
the ships with men in them,
What stranger miracles are there?
― Walt Whitman

Changing Each Other’s Life

Recently I ran into someone who said, “You changed my life! After you told me that you liked pedicures, I had one myself, and I liked it so much I began having them weekly. They’re now my favorite luxurious treat for myself. But if you hadn’t said you liked them, I never would have started.”

I gaped at her in astonishment. I have had one pedicure in my life, because a friend dragged me there twelve or fifteen years ago. I must have run into this woman right afterwards and said it was more fun than I expected. I never even considered having another one.

I think we change each other all the time, in ways just this unpredictable and surprising.

by Meg Riley, Senior Minister, Church Of The Larger Fellowship TO READ MORE