Fortuna–My Starfish
Sunday, June 6th, 2010 | Uncategorized
There’s a story about a man who was on a beach. There were thousands of starfish that had been washed up on the beach and without being thrown back in the water, they would die. So this one man, picked up one starfish at a time and threw it back into the water so that it could live. Along came another man who asked him, “How can you throw those starfish back? There are thousands of them that will die anyways. You will never make a difference.” The man throwing starfish into the water picked up one starfish and as he tossed it back into the ocean he said, “It made a difference to that one.”
I often think of this story when I am in Ethiopia. This is what helping people is like here. We only serve 20-40 women a year and there are statistically 150,000 prostituted women on the streets of Addis. We could get so easily overwhelmed by the numbers of women who we are not helping or we could count our blessings and celebrate and try our best to help the women who are currently in our care. We choose the latter.
Fortuna is a baby in need of much care. She lives in poor air quality conditions in a mud hut with her mom. She has been fed the local cereal in a bottle from the time she was born and has had a cough for over two month now. So, I’ve decided to help her to improve her situaion. There are many more babies like her but I know that at WAR we are making a difference for her and her mom and that makes it all worth it. Jesus cared about the one in the multitude and as Christians so should we.
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