One Man

One by One

The Story of the Starfish

While walking along a beach, an elderly man saw a young boy in the

distance who was picking up starfish off the sand

and gently tossing them back into the ocean.

As he neared the boy, the man smiled and said,

“Why are you throwing starfish back into the water?”

The boy replied, “The sun is up, and the tide is going out;

if I don’t throw them back in, they’ll die.”

The man commented, “But, son, don’t you realize that many, many starfish

have washed up along every mile of this beach?

You can’t possibly make a difference!”

The boy listened politely. He then bent down,

gently picked up another starfish, and tossed it past the breaking waves.

“Sir,” he replied, “I made a difference to that one.”

One by one, we can make a difference.

Each one, reach one