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Eagle Born to Fly: Finding Life Beyond
Depression by Sharon C. Matthies
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Part 5- Life Around the Bend
Finding my Ebb and Flow
As you probably have guessed by now, I’m a die-hard believer
in the "ripple effect," convinced that every encounter
we have with another person creates its own unique domino effect,
and that every thing we do ripples out into the greater continuum.
We can never know how far-reaching our impact on another human person
can be, or how far into eternity our ripples might stretch. When
we believe in that "ripple effect," two things become
crystal clear: first, that our choices ultimately have an impact
on the larger world around us, and secondly, that we really aren’t
expected to do it all alone.
As interdependent individuals, we each play a vital role in the
world’s ability to heal the sick, to feed the hungry, and
to bring an end to war and hatred. We become the hands and voices
that must speak into the injustice and inequity. When we have the
means and ability, I think it’s because it’s our turn
to do the giving and doing. When circumstances render us resource-less
and incapable, then it’s someone else’s turn.
We ebb and flow according to our means and ability. But when even
one small part of the world refuses to do its part, the ebb and
flow is broken and the impact can be felt throughout the continuum.
If enough of the world shrugs its collective shoulders and refuses
to care anymore, then the ebb and flow diminishes to a deadly trickle.
That’s when famine and disease and war take over, rippling
confusion, hopelessness and hatred into the rest of the world.
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