tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6836661370771573182024-03-12T20:31:41.834-04:00"The World's Thy Ship And Not Thy Home"~ reflections of a catholic writer ~Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683666137077157318.post-16807539473037682792024-01-15T15:17:00.004-05:002024-01-15T15:24:09.573-05:00One Page at a Time<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ7TeT6e7B2DrmziH2l04eVc2s5kcL8_t33Rvlngs8xpClg_HusTy9f5Ahyphenhyphent9Bgo_Qfz29_UgFnpPRr27Epjn2msCCIo6y5aAsFVvI_7LzLYNTAEBCfP4aXEtuHcBhlg9VETQ_498DVniglGF2cTsBeRcAHEuRvv3uPoINHccA03dXEH3P-itVSZXhKCU/s1800/pexels-photo-6825466.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ7TeT6e7B2DrmziH2l04eVc2s5kcL8_t33Rvlngs8xpClg_HusTy9f5Ahyphenhyphent9Bgo_Qfz29_UgFnpPRr27Epjn2msCCIo6y5aAsFVvI_7LzLYNTAEBCfP4aXEtuHcBhlg9VETQ_498DVniglGF2cTsBeRcAHEuRvv3uPoINHccA03dXEH3P-itVSZXhKCU/s320/pexels-photo-6825466.jpeg" width="213" /></a></div><br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Ember, amazon_ember, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(55, 62, 62); color: #373e3e; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">One evening a squall on an ocean left the beach scattered with starfish. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Ember, amazon_ember, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(55, 62, 62); color: #373e3e; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A child walking along noticed and tried to return the starfish into the waves. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Ember, amazon_ember, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(55, 62, 62); color: #373e3e; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A passerby remarked to the child of the impossibility of </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Ember, amazon_ember, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(55, 62, 62); color: #373e3e; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">making a difference </span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Ember, amazon_ember, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(55, 62, 62); color: #373e3e; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">since there were countless starfish. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Ember, amazon_ember, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(55, 62, 62); color: #373e3e; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The child looked thoughtfully at the starfish in his hand </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Ember, amazon_ember, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(55, 62, 62); color: #373e3e; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">before returning it to the ocean and answered, </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Ember, amazon_ember, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(55, 62, 62); color: #373e3e; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Well, it makes a difference to this one." </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com