Chapter 200

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." ~ Mother Teresa

Ripples. That is what we are aiming for even though we use other words and language to explain and complain and describe it. All the giant massive problems and challenges facing the world are too complex and multilayered for one person or organization to change them. Don’t let that stop you from aiming for them though, when enough of us send ripples through them, the tsunami will absolutely topple them.

Mother Teresa was born here in Skopje, where we have lived the last 20 plus years. She would be rather upset to know that a large three story shopping center has been built upon her old homestead where she was born, but she had nothing to do with that, instead she chose to live among the poorest of the outcasts in India. She gave her life to that work, and even though she has been gone many years now, her ripples continue to change the world, circling ever wider.

While you and I may never receive the Nobel Peace prize for our ripples, as Mother Teresa did in the late 1970’s, that doesn’t make our ripples less important. In fact, you should make as many ripples as you can and as often as you can. Shake up the challenges and problems of the world, interfere and attack the systems that make these problems happen and provide the structure for them to continue. 

Our ripples will put cracks in these structures that allow abuse and permit people from taking advantage of one another. 

Throw another rock with the efforts of your life!